The Penguin Speakers Bureau

Geraldine Brooks was for eleven years a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, where her beats included some of the world’s most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Her fiction debut, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was published in ten countries and was a 2001 Notable Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. For her second novel, March, Brooks was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and Foreign Correspondence: A Penpal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over.

Her newest novel, People of the Book, instantly became a New York Times bestseller.

Geraldine Brooks was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University in fall 2005. She has been named the latest recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks lives with her husband, Tony Horwitz, and their son in Massachusetts.

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