Geraldine Brooks Born: 14-Sep-1955 Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Journalist Nationality: Australia Executive summary: March Husband: Tony Horwitz (journalist/historian, m. 1984, one son) Son: Nathaniel (b. 1996)
University: University of Sydney University: MA Journalism, Columbia University (1983)
The Sydney Morning Herald Reporter The Wall Street Journal Obama for America Overseas Press Club Award 1990 (Gulf War coverage, with Tony Horwitz) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2006 for March Espionage Nigeria (jailed briefly) Naturalized US Citizen 2002 (retaining Australian citizenship)
Official Website: http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/
Author of books:
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994) Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over (1997, letters) Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (2001, novel) March (2005, novel) People of the Book (2008, novel) Caleb's Crossing (2011, novel) Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home (2011, lecture)
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