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That success continued when she turned to historical fiction, as she moved seamlessly from a village struck by the bubonic plague to the challenges of girl children left behind by an absent father during the Civil War from a fictional account of the Sarajevo Haggadah to the life of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College and now, with Horse, the true story of the record-breaking 19th-century thoroughbred, Lexington. The publication order of her books is as follows: Calebs Crossing. But again and again, both as a journalist and novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks has demonstrated just that sort of skill, a distinctive ability to bridge the past and the present, the “exotic” and the familiar with characters who feel instantly - surprisingly - familiar.īrooks’s first book, Nine Parts of Desire, made her an international bestselling author. Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for her historical fiction novels. She worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and in 1982 she. Only the most skillful of writers could weave these threads into a compelling story of art and science, love, obsession and our ongoing reckoning with racism. Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydneys western suburbs. Signature Reviewed by Margot Livesey Reading Geraldine Brookss remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A former foreign correspondent, she has reported from more than fifteen. Geraldine Brooks in conversation about her most recent New York Times Bestselling novel Horse. Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, March. An enslaved groom in pre-Civil War Kentucky bonded to a young foal a painting discarded in a junk pile a modern-day Australian scientist and a Nigerian American art historian. Geraldine Brooks with a horse and her book cover Horse.

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