Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-born author and journalist.
* She grew up in Sydney and attended the University of Sydney.
* She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years.
* She won a scholarship to attend Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
* She worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
* She has written several nonfiction books, including Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
* She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for her novel March.
* Her other novels include Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing, and The Secret Chord.
* She is married to fellow journalist and author Tony Horwitz.