Narrator

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the Australian-born author of the bestselling novels People of the Book, Year of Wonders and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award. Geraldine lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son.