| 31,077 (31,532) | 1,473 | 536 | (3.89) | 129 | 0 | Geraldine Brooks is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, "Nine Parts of Desire" and "Foreign Correspondence." A former war correspondent, her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. (Publisher Provided) Geraldine Brooks was born in Sydney, Australia on September 14, 1955. She attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years. 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 later worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. She has written both fiction and non-fiction books including Year of Wonders, Nine Parts of Desire, and The Secret Chord. She has won several awards including the Nita Kibble Literary Award for Foreign Correspondence, the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for March, the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award for Caleb's Crossing, and the Australian Book of the Year Award and the Australian Literary Fiction Award in 2008 for People of the Book. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from People of the Book … (more) |
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Geraldine Brooks has 71 past events. (show) Northshire Saratoga Knit Wits Reading Group The Knit Wits Reading Group will meet Wednesday May 21 at 6:30pm at Common Thread to discuss People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks. If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount). For more information or to join the group, contact Leah at lmoore@northshire.com.
Location: Street: Common Thread Additional: 508 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
Greenlight Fiction Book Group Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 PM Greenlight Fiction Book Group discusses People of the Book Led by Greenlight general manager Alexis, this book group discusses paperback fiction on the third Tuesday of each month. For April, the group discusses People of the Book, the acclaimed historical novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks. Inspired by a true story, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding – an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair – only begin to unlock its deep mysteries, and unexpectedly plunge Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.
Book group picks are always 15% off online or in the store.
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 Cholla Book Club: Caleb's Crossing
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 A Special One Book One San Diego Event With Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks, the auithor of Caleb's Crossing, the 2013 One Book One San Diego selection, will appear at the USD Warren Auditorium. Mysterious Galaxy will be providing books for sale at this event. If you are unable to attend, but would like a signed copy, please call the San Diego store at 858-268-4747. Location: Street: Warren Auditorium, at University of San Diego Additional: 5998 Alcala Park City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92110 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
 A Special One Book One San Diego Event With Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Brooks, the auithor of Caleb's Crossing, the 2013 One Book One San Diego selection, will appear at the Encinitas Library. For more information, please consult the One Book One San Diego website here. Mysterious Galaxy will be providing books for sale at this event. If you are unable to attend, but would like a signed copy, please call the San Diego store at 858-268-4747.
Location: Street: Encenitas Library Additional: 540 Cornish Drive City: Encinitas, Province: California Postal Code: 92024 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
Geraldine Brooks Signs Her Book "March" Geraldine Brooks, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer prize for her book, Caleb's Crossing, will be at St. Mark's High School to sign her new book, March. From the New Castle County Website: As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the American Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, Mr. March, and tells his story of going off to war and of reopening past relationships in the process. As riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.
Location: Street: 2501 Pike Creek Rd Additional: City: Wilmington, Province: Delaware Postal Code: 19808 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor; her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney. 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.
Brooks's first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. Foreign Correspondence (1997), which won the Nita Kibble Literary Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel adventure about a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them.
Her first novel, Year of Wonders, published in 2001, became an international bestseller. Set in 1666, the story depicts a young woman's battle to save fellow villagers as well as her own soul when the bubonic plague suddenly strikes her small Derbyshire village of Eyam.  | |
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