Geraldine Brooks (writer)
| Geraldine Brooks | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 September 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | Australian-American |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Spouse | Tony Horwitz (1984-present) |
Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. While retaining her Australian passport, she became a United States citizen in 2002.
A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. Her father, a newspaper sub-editor, was an immigrant from the United States; her mother was from Boorowa. She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, 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 at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism.
As a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, with the stories from the Persian Gulf which she and her husband reported in 1990, receiving the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for "Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad". In 2006, she was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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