Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who, together with her husband Tony Horwitz, won the 1990 Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her novels Caleb’s Crossing and People of the Book were New York Times bestsellers. Her first novel Year of Wonders was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and currently optioned for a major motion picture. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence and The Idea of Home.
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