Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. Her novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, and it sits alongside historical novels such as Year of Wonders, People of the Book and Caleb's Crossing. Brooks also wrote Nine Parts of Desire, a nonfiction book about the lives of women in the Islamic world, and her novel Horse is a historical novel built around a racehorse.