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March

by Geraldine Brooks

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction · 2006 · Winner
Penguin Bookshistorical-fictionISBN 9780143036661

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction2006Winner

About This Book

A reimagining of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, following the Reverend March as he serves as a Union Army chaplain during the American Civil War. The novel explores the violence, moral compromise, and disillusionment of war, as well as the complicated love between March and his wife Marmee.

About the Author

Geraldine BrooksAustralian-American

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. Read more →

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