FORT COLLINS READS
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Pulitzer Prize
winning author
GERALDINE BROOKS
will speak in Fort Collins

ABOUT GERALDINE BROOKS

Geraldine Brooks has written six books, including “March.” Her first novel, “Year of Wonders,” is an international best seller, and her 2008 novel, “People of the Book,” is a New York Times bestseller that has been translated into 20 languages. She also wrote two nonfiction books, “Nine Parts of Desire” and “Foreign Correspondence.” Her most recent novel is “Caleb’s Crossing.”

A native of Australia, Brooks grew up in Sydney. She was a feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald then received a scholarship to study journalism at Columbia University in New York City. She received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia in 1983. She worked for 11 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.

In 1984, Brooks married Tony Horwitz, an author and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. Four of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, including “A Voyage Long and Strange,” “Blue Latitudes,” “Confederates in the Attic,” and “Baghdad Without a Map.”

Brooks and Horwitz have two sons, Nathaniel and Bizuayehu, and live on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

For more information, visit http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/

Other Books by Geraldine Brooks

“Caleb’s Crossing” (on sale May 3, 2011 - fiction)

Geraldine Brooks’s latest novel is about the young man who became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. Set in 1665 on Martha’s Vineyard, “Caleb’s Crossing” is narrated by a young Puritan woman who befriends Caleb. Her father is a minister who seeks to convert the local Wampanoag tribe; Caleb’s father is a Wampanoag chieftain.

“People of the Book” (2008 fiction)

“People of the Book” follows the five-century journey of a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript as it travels from medieval Spain to the ruins of Sarajevo, and from the days of the Inquisition in Venice to the beaches of Australia. The novel was inspired by the true story of a mysterious book known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.

“Year of Wonders” (2002 fiction)

“Year of Wonders” takes place in 1666 in an English village struck by the bubonic plague. Narrated by a housemaid, the novel is based on a true story, and explores how the villagers cope with the destruction of the disease and their community.

“Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey From Down Under to All Over” (1998 nonfiction)

As an adolescent in Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks discovered the world through pen pals. Twenty years later, she is a foreign correspondent, and sets out on a “human treasure hunt” to discover her earlier literary connections. She find lives touched by war, fame and mental illness.

“Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women” (1995 nonfiction)

Brooks explores the women behind the veils and how their lives are influenced by often contradictory political, religious and cultural forces.

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