Career Īs a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. Following graduation, she was a rookie reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor. Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield.
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