In her initial research, Ms Brooks discovered that the absent Mr. In her Afterword, she describes how the characters in Little Women were based on Louisa May Alcott’s own family. With this book Geraldine Brooks wrote an important story. March from Little Women the husband of Marmee, and the father of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. It was easy for me to become invested in this story because it is based on the mysterious Mr. March took me by my idealistic hands and thrust me completely into the Civil War where I experienced it in ways I had not before. They divide their time between homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia. They have two sons– Nathaniel and Bizuayehu–and two dogs. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.īrooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup, France, in 1984. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March.

Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īustralian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney.

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