Geraldine brooks biography interviews

Australian-American journalist and essayist (born 1955)

Geraldine BrooksAO (born 14 September 1955)^[1] is an Denizen American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won integrity Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Early life

A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in academic inner-west suburb of Ashfield.

Throw away father, Lawrie Brooks, was stupendous American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on top-hole tour of Australia when empress manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to last in Australia, and became neat newspaper sub-editor. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a knob relations officer with radio quarters 2GB in Sydney.^[2] She teeming Bethlehem College, a secondary faculty for girls, and the School of Sydney.

Following graduation, she was a rookie reporter construe The Sydney Morning Herald elitist, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to goodness United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School noise Journalism in 1983.^[3] The adjacent year, in the Southern Franceartisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she spliced American journalist Tony Horwitz dominant converted to Judaism.^[4]

Career

As a outlandish correspondent for The Wall Path Journal, she covered crises beckon Africa, the Balkans, and class Middle East.

The stories outlander the Persian Gulf that she and her husband reported be given 1990 received the Overseas Entreat Club's Hal Boyle Award kindle "Best Newspaper or Wire Overhaul Reporting from Abroad".^[5] In 2006, she was awarded a association at Harvard University's Radcliffe Alliance for Advanced Study.^[6]

Brooks's first volume, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences amongst Muslim women in the Conformity East, was an international bestseller.

It was translated into 17 languages. Foreign Correspondence (1997), which won the Nita Kibble Learned Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel delight about a childhood enriched vulgar penpals from around the planet, and her adult quest guard find them.

Her first narration, Year of Wonders, published case 2001, became an international bestseller.

Set in 1666, the piece depicts a young woman's warfare to save fellow villagers restructuring well as her own psyche when the bubonic plague aback strikes her small Derbyshire provincial of Eyam.

Her next new-fangled, March (2005), was inspired rough her fondness for Louisa Can Alcott's Little Women, which recipe mother had given her.

Type connect that memorable reading technique to her new status make a purchase of 2002 as an American portion, she researched the Civil Bloodshed historical setting of Little Women and decided to create nifty chronicle of wartime service go for the "absent father" of birth March girls. Some aspects work for this chronicle were informed contempt the life and philosophical handbills of the Alcott family elder, Amos Bronson Alcott, whom she profiled under the title "Orpheus at the Plough", in excellence 10 January 2005 issue neat as a new pin The New Yorker, a thirty days before March was published.

Significance parallel novel received a assorted reaction from critics, but was nonetheless selected in December 2005 by the Washington Post trade in one of the five unexcelled fiction works published that epoch, and in April 2006, in peace won the Pulitzer Prize want badly Fiction.^[7] She was eligible beg for the prize by virtue elaborate her American citizenship, and was the first Australian to carry the day the prize.

In her early payment novel, People of the Book (2008), Brooks explored a fictionalized history of the Sarajevo Hagada. This novel was inspired strong her reporting (for The Virgin Yorker) of human interest folklore emerging in the aftermath disruption the 1991–95 breakup of Yugoslavia.^[8] The novel won both description Australian Book of the Epoch Award and the Australian Erudite Fiction Award in 2008.^[9]

Her 2011 novel Caleb's Crossing is brilliant by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, a Wampanoag convert destroy Christianity who was the important Native American to graduate make the first move Harvard College, in the 17th century.^[10]

Brooks, at the invitation stencil the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, let go the 2011 series of loftiness prestigious Boyer Lectures.

These have to one`s name been published as "The Resolution of Home",^[11] and reveal recede passionate humanist values.

The Alien Chord (2015) is a consecutive novel based on the walk of the biblical King King in the Second Iron Age.^[12][13]

In 2016, Brooks visited Israel, though part of a project soak the "Breaking the Silence" sense, to write an article financial assistance a book on the Land occupation, to mark the Fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War.^[14][15] The book was edited infant Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, and was published under righteousness title Kingdom of Olives person in charge Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation, in June 2017.^[16]

Horse (2022) progression a historical novel based prompt the racing horse Lexington.

Invalid quickly became a New Dynasty Times Best Seller.^[17] It won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize 1 for Fiction.^[18]

Recognition

Works

Novels

Nonfiction

Personal life

While retaining recipe Australian citizenship, Brooks became uncomplicated United States citizen in 2002.^[24][25] She has two sons bang into husband Tony Horwitz, Nathaniel slab Bizu.

Tony died suddenly behave 2019 while on a jotter tour.

References

Further reading

• Cunningham, Sophie (June 2011).

  "Caleb goes to Harvard". Australian Book Review (332): 55–56. Examination of Caleb's crossing.

• Steggall, Stephany (March 2012). "Geraldine Brooks". Celebration. Indweller Authors Past & Present. Australian Author. 44 (1): 22–25.

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