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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.
Geraldine Brooks wrote an article for The New Yorker that provides more details about the Sarajevo Haggadah and its real-life rescuers, especially Dervis Korkut, who hid it from the Nazis. It also explains that Lola, the young Jewish guerrilla fighter in the novel, is based on a real person named Mira Papo, who was sheltered by Dervis Korkut ...
March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862.
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Brooks worked for the Cairo bureau of The Wall Street Journal. Her assistant was named Sahar, [4] and she worked as Brooks's translator. Sahar had been educated in the West, [7] was young, [4] and had a secular mindset. Brooks was inspired to make the book when Sahar began wearing an Islamic veil, [7] and began espousing religious ideologies. [4]
The novel is written in the point of view of a housemaid named Anna Frith, on what she lives through when the plague hits her village. It is based on the history of the small Derbyshire village of Eyam [4] that, when beset by the plague in 1666, quarantines itself in order to prevent the disease from spreading further.
Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor: Language: English: Series: The Best American Short Stories: Media type: Print (hardback & paperback) Preceded by: The Best American Short Stories 2010 Followed by: The Best American Short Stories 2012
In 1964, he married actress Geraldine Brooks. They were married until her death in 1977; [ 4 ] they had no children. [ 23 ] In 1977, he married Betsy Anne Langman, daughter of Anne W. Simon , stepdaughter of real estate developer Robert E. Simon , granddaughter of investment banker Maurice Wertheim and great-granddaughter of US ambassador Henry ...