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Brooks, Geraldine (1955-)

Australian-born author and journalist Geraldine Brooks grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. After working for three years for the Sydney Morning Herald her education took her to the United States and her career, as a journalist, around the world. In 2006 Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book March.

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On the shelves

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Nine parts of desire

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Article

An article with the author about her research for her 2015 publication The Secret Chord:

Brooks, Geraldine, 2015, 'Pilgrims progress: Geraldine Brooks and her 10-year-old son search for the real King David', The Weekend Australian Magazine, October 03-04, pp. 26-28.

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Women of the Book: Geraldine Doogue meets Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks Compass

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Study notes

eNotes : Caleb's Crossing - March - People of the Book - Year of Wonders

Interviews

Geraldine Brooks, 2007, Readings Bookstore, 29 October
Keenan, Catherine, 2005, 'March to the front', Sydney Morning Herald, 9 April

General

Geraldine Brooks official website

American Program Bureau

Includes a biography of the author and two videos: Geraldine Brooks discusses her novel [An interview with Kerry O'Brien [8:50] and what it is to be an author [2:12]

The Pulitzer Prize 2011

Official citation for March

The Wheeler Centre

Texts in the City: Year of Wonder. An exploration of Geraldine Brooks's book by Toni Jordan and Ruby Murray. Available as an audio or video file [45:17]This is a study particularly aimed at VCE students

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Fiction

Caleb's Crossing

Smiley, Jane, 2011, Geraldine Brooks's pilgrims and indians, The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, May 13

March

Fowler, Karen Joy, 2005, 'Faith of their father', Washington Post, 13 March
'Geraldine Brooks: Brave new world', 2006, The Guardian, 6 May
Pierce, Peter, 2005, 'March by Geraldine Brooks', The Age, 2 April

People of the Book

Fuard, Lisa, 2008, 'All the world's a page' The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, 20 January
Le Guin, Ursula K., 2008, 'The shelf-life of shadows', The Guardian, 20 January

Secret chord

Gilbert, Matthew, 2015, 'The Secret Chord', Globe, 3 October
Hoffman, Alice, 2015, 'Geraldine Brooks reimagines King David's life in "The Secret Chord"', The Washington Post, 28 September.

Year of wonders

Hickling, Alfred, 2001, 'Journal of a plague year', The Guardian, 14 July
Vernon, John, 2001, 'Year of wonders' - ' A Parade of disasters in a plague stricken town', The New York Times, 26 August

Non-Fiction

Nine parts desire

Quandt, William B, 1995, 'Nine parts of desire: the hidden world of Islamic women', Foreign Affairs, March/April
Abdel-Fattah, Randa, ''On "Nine Parts of Desire"' Griffith Review

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Brooks, Geraldine (1955-)

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