Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian journalist and author whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. While still retaining her Australian passport, she became an American citizen in 2002.
She is not to be confused with the Emmy- and Tony Award-nominated actress Geraldine Brooks.
A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield, where she attended the all-girls' Bethlehem Co...
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Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian journalist and author whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. While still retaining her Australian passport, she became an American citizen in 2002.
She is not to be confused with the Emmy- and Tony Award-nominated actress Geraldine Brooks.
A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield, where she attended the all-girls' Bethlehem College 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 in journalism at New York City's Columbia University in 1983. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to his religion, Judaism. As a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in the Middle...
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