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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize−winning March‚ Year of Wonders‚ and the non−fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously‚ Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia‚ Somalia‚ and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia‚ she divides her time between Sydney and Martha′s Vineyard‚ Massachusetts. She lives with her husband‚ the author Tony Horwitz‚ and their son.


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People Of The Book People Of The Book
When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney...
People Of The Book People Of The Book
People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of...
March March
Acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story of the absent father...

Interview

In your afterword‚ you describe chancing upon Eyam and its terrible history while living in England in 1990. Can you tell us a bit about your research—for instance‚ what you uncovered about the townspeople and perhaps didn′t include in the novel for whatever reason? What about the difficulties of writing a story that blends fiction with historical fact‚ especially given your journalistic‚ just−the−facts background?

The written record of what happened in Eyam during the plague year...

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