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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 don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to…”Sheila Heti
- “We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words writte…”NisiOisiN
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- “It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on scree…”Bokeem Woodbine
- “Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”Francis Bacon
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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