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Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author of
the bestselling novels Year of Wonders, People of the Book, Caleb's
Crossing, The Secret Chord, Horse, and March, for which she won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed
non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. A
graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall
Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she
won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brooks married American journalist and author Tony Horwitz in 1984
and they lived together in Martha's Vineyard until his sudden death
in 2019, the subject of her 2025 memoir Memorial Days. Geraldine
Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author of the
bestselling novels Year of Wonders, People of the Book, Caleb's
Crossing, The Secret Chord, Horse, and March, for which she won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed
non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. A
graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall
Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she
won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brooks married American journalist and author Tony Horwitz in 1984
and they lived together in Martha's Vineyard until his sudden death
in 2019, the subject of her 2025 memoir Memorial Days.
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