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About Geraldine Brooks
Australian-American journalist and novelist
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist, known for her fiction and reporting. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March. Brooks has written both journalism and novels, and March brought her major recognition. Her work is associated with literary fiction and with the eye for detail that comes from a background in reporting.
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- “I knew that my life needed a change, but I must admit there's nothing like a good brush with death.”John Popper
- “If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”Jeanette Winterson
- “Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, aki…”Richard Engel
Books: more sayings
- “The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”Marwane Caber
- “I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' an…”Italo Calvino
- “All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten…”Robert W. Welch
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Books by Geraldine Brooks
People of the book
2009
Year of Wonders
2001
Caleb's crossing
2011
March
2005
The Secret Chord
2015