īrooks'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. In 2006, she was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The stories from the Persian Gulf that she and her husband reported in 1990 received the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for 'Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad'. Career Īs a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. 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.

She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney. 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. Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield.

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