Geraldine brooks biography author

Australian-American journalist and novelist (born )

Geraldine BrooksAO (born 14 September )^[1] is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Early life

A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. 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.

Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney.^[2] She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. 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