Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks ( born 14 September 1955 in Sydney ) is an Australian journalist and author.

After her studies at Sydney University and first professional experience as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald she worked from 1983 until the mid-1990s as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

Her first book, The Daughters of Allah, in which she describes her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, appeared in 1994. It became an international bestseller and was translated into 17 languages.

After The Berber women ( 1997), memories of her travels in the North of Africa, published in 2001 under the title The Pesttuch her ​​first novel.

In 2005 she published her book March ( German open field ) describes a novel that picks up the fabric of the American classic novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and a love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War. The book was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The main character of the novel is a Protestant preacher in the northern states, which invests its assets in the fight against slavery and for the entire family falls into poverty. March finally volunteered as a chaplain to serve in the Northern States Army and eventually lands on a liberated plantation in the South. March is as a guerrilla troop of Confederate Army attacks the plantation seriously injured and comes in a military hospital in New York. When his wife visited him there, it notes that the positive reports that her husband had sent her from the front were all lying.

Brooks is married since 1984 with the journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Horwitz.