Geraldine brooks education
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Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks had a stellar career as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, but it was her 2005 novel March that won her a Pulitzer Prize. Brooks graduated from the University of Sydney and reported for the Sydney Morning Herald before moving to New York to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 1983. A year later, she married fellow journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. As a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, she covered conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans and was honored with the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award in 1990. In 1994, she published her first novel, Nine Parts of Desire, based on women she had known in the Middle East. Her later novels include 2001’s Year of Wonders, about the Black Plague, 2005’s March, retelling Little Women from the father’s perspective, 2008’s People of the Book, a saga of the Sarajevo Haggadah spanning centuries and continents, 2011’s Caleb’s Crossing, about t
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Geraldine Brooks (writer)
Australian-American journalist and novelist (born 1955)
Geraldine BrooksAO (born 14 September 1955)[1] is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Early life
A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney.[2] She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Following graduation, she was a rookie reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983.[3] The following yea
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Geraldine Brooks Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
In two separate interviews, Geraldine Brooks discusses Year of Wonders and People of the Book, and the difficulties of writing stories that blend fiction with historical fact, given her journalistic - just-the-facts background.
Two interviews with Geraldine Brooks about Year of Wonders and People of the Book.
A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
Your previous two novels are set during Europe's plague years and the American Civil War. Now, you've created an epic story about art and religious persecution. What is it that draws you to a particular subject, or a particular historical era?
I love to find stories from the past where we can know something, but not everything; where there is enough of a historical record to have left us with an intriguing factual scaffolding, but where there are also enough unknowable voids in that record to allow room for imagination to work.
What do you think it is about the real Sarajevo Haggadah that has allowed it to survive the centuries?
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