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Author Geraldine Brooks is the featured speaker at this year's Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County Love of Literacy Luncheon on April 11 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West ...
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.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994) is a non-fiction book by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks, based on her experiences among Muslim women of the Middle East. It was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages.
The book's Afterword briefly explains which parts of the novel are based on fact and which are imaginary. 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 ...
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.
The Best American Short Stories 2011 ; Editor: 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