Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American author and journalist. Born in Sydney in 1955, she studied at the University of Sydney and at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, before turning to fiction full-time. Brooks is the author of five novels, including Year of Wonders (2001), about a village during the bubonic plague; March (2005), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; People of the Book (2008); Caleb's Crossing (2011); and Horse (2022), a novel about a famous nineteenth-century American racehorse interleaved with contemporary storylines about race, ownership, and memory. Horse won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction in 2023, and was a New York Times bestseller. Brooks is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of nonfiction works including Nine Parts of Desire (1994) and Foreign Correspondence (1997). She lives on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and in rural Australia.