Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an award-winning Australian American novelist known for her historical fiction. After working as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she turned to fiction in the late 1990s. Her debut novel, Year of Wonders (2001), set during the 1666 plague in an English village, was a critical and commercial success, establishing her reputation for combining historical detail with emotional depth. She followed it with March (2005), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and reimagined the life of the absent father from Little Women. Brooks continued to explore complex historical material in People of the Book (2008), Caleb’s Crossing (2011), and The Secret Chord (2015). Her most recent novel, Horse (2022), spans centuries through the story of a racehorse and the legacy of slavery in America. She lives in Martha’s Vineyard and remains one of the most respected voices in contemporary historical fiction.