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	Geraldine Brooks
		With her critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks was praised for her passionate rendering and careful research in vividly imagining the effects of the bubonic plague on a small English village in the seventeenth century.
		Geraldine Brooks has taken her inspiration from one of the great American families of the nineteenth century, the Alcott’s of Concord, Massachusetts, during the first year of the Civil War.
		Brooks' hero, an idealist whose moral certitudes are deeply shaken by his experiences in the South, comments: "If war can ever be said to be just, then this war is so; it is action for a moral cause, with the most rigorous of intellectual underpinnings.
	www.geraldinebrooks.com /march.shtml (2252 words)

	Current Fellows: Geraldine Brooks
		Geraldine Brooks is the author of two novels: March (Viking, 2005), which imagines a year at war for the absent father in Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women, and Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Viking, 2001).
		Brooks also contributes occasionally to publications such as the New Yorker.
		Brooks has a BA from the University of Sydney and an MS in journalism from Columbia University.
	www.radcliffe.edu /fellowships/current/bio.php?id=142&year=2005-2006 (276 words)

	Amazon.de: A Year of Wonders: English Books: Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor.
		Brooks has used this piece of history as a framework for her fictional account of what it might have been like to live through the event.
		Geraldine Brooks's novel explores love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of 17th century science and religion to deal with a seemingly diabolical pestience.
	www.amazon.de /Year-Wonders-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/product-description/1841154571 (1626 words)

	Geraldine Brooks (actor) Information
		Geraldine Brooks (October 29, 1925 – June 19, 1977) was an American television actress.
		She was born Geraldine Stroock in New York City.
		Brooks first appeared in films in the late 1940s, but appeared mostly on television from 1950 until her early death at age 51 from cancer.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Geraldine_Brooks_(actor) (77 words)

	Online NewsHour: Geraldine Brooks Wins Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for "March" -- April 18, 2006
		Author Geraldine Brooks, has taken the mostly absent father of the March family at the center the 19th century novel "Little Women", and made him the central character of a new novel called "March" which has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
		GERALDINE BROOKS: Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
		GERALDINE BROOKS: I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june06/pulitzer_4-18.html (1144 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Geraldine Brooks
		Brooks: His school in Boston finally had to close down because the parents, even though they were the liberal-minded intelligencia of Boston, couldn't stand the idea of their kids going to school with a fl girl.
		Brooks: And this is something that is not quite as well-grasped as maybe it should be: It was actually illegal to teach a slave to read in Virginia after the Nat Turner Rebellion.
		Brooks: Well, just that, for example: seeing those women changing in a time of crisis was really what shaped the character of Anna in Year of Wonders.
	www.powells.com /authors/brooks.html (3830 words)

	Geraldine Brooks - Biography - Moviefone
		Born Geraldine Stroock, she first appeared onstage (in a musical) at age 17, then worked in summer stock and toured with the Theater Guild in a repertory of Shakespeare productions; she later studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
		An intense, pretty, petite brunette, she went to Hollywood in 1947 after being signed by Warner Brothers; there she was proclaimed as a "new Hepburn" with an electrifying screen presence.
		After returning to the U.S., she largely abandoned her film career in favor of TV and the stage; she received a Tony nomination for her performance in the play Brightower (1970) and several Emmy nominations for her work on TV.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/geraldine-brooks/8767/biography (224 words)

	March by Geraldine Brooks: Reviews
		Geraldine Brooks' novel is a moving and inspirational tour de force.
		It is all the more remarkable that Geraldine Brooks could come to this well-worn, well-loved material and find a new story to tell, one that will make readers return to Little Women with a different understanding.
		Brooks is capable of strong writing about the natural world and nicely researched effects about the human one...
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/brooksgeraldine/march (642 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE by Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brooks becomes a foreign correspondent who travels from war zone to famine and finally arrives at a deeper understanding of the value of family, home, and stability in every person's life.
		Brooks' former work as an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and her personal travels, from Sydney, Australia, to making her current home with her husband and son in Waterford, Virginia, give her a second sight that many outsiders possess.
		Brooks was an outsider, a loner, an observer--as shown by events ranging from her childhood rheumatic fever, which often separated her from schoolmates, to living "down under," to coming of age on the cusp of the feminist movement.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/foreign_correspondence.asp (948 words)

	Geraldine Brooks - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born Geraldine Stroock, she first appeared onstage (in a musical) at age 17, then worked in summer stock and toured with the Theater Guild in a...
		Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March, was launched in early March 2005 to critical acclaim in...
		Geraldine Brooks talks about March: "In the early 1990s I went to live in a...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/geraldine-brooks/8767/main (126 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay — March (ISBN: 0670033359), Book and Geraldine Brooks items on eBay.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The author, Geraldine Brooks, has no intention of rewriting the well-loved novel, "Little Women." It is simply that she wants to fill us in on some of the details of that time and place which Louisa May Alcott, in her consideration for her characters, omits to address.
		We wonder how Geraldine Brooks came to find that Thoreau was "unhandsome in physique, with short legs and long arms" and that "his features were large - the nose a vast thing--." She certainly surpasses Louisa May Alcott in her character delineation.
		Yes, this is a story of the Civil War, wherein we are given glimpses of the effects of slavery on the Negroes and their masters, the intrigue of the Underground Railroad, the dilemma of the emancipated slaves, not to mention the horrific mayhem engendered by the war of brother against brother.
	product.ebay.com /March_ISBN_0670033359_W0QQfvcsZ2178QQsoprZ30534531 (941 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| March \| Geraldine Brooks
		Get our free guide to Geraldine Brooks' novel of one courageous woman's struggle to survive in the year of the plague.
		Now, Brooks turns her talents to exploring the devastation and moral complexities of the Civil War through her brilliantly imagined tale of Mr.
		March, Brooks has created a conflicted and deeply sensitive man, a father who is struggling to reconcile duty to his fellow man with duty to his family against the backdrop of one of the most grim periods in American history.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/march.html (2031 words)

	Geraldine Brooks at AllExperts
		Geraldine Brooks is an Australian - American author, who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney.She attended Sydney University and worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
		Brooks has been awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for 2006.
		Brooks married fellow Pulitzer recipient, Tony Horwitz, in Tourette-sur-loup, France, in 1984.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/geraldine_brooks.htm (420 words)

	Amazon.ca: Year of Wonders: Books: Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I picked up Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks for two reasons: our school librarian highly recommended it, and I discovered that Brooks is the wife of one of my favorite non-fiction authors, Tony Horwitz (Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes).
		Brooks' writing is truly elegant, and Anna's thoughts and words are written in the lyrical but simple cadence of the 1660's.
		While this is Geraldine Brooks' first novel, she has two nonfiction books to her credit including Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women.
	www.amazon.ca /Year-Wonders-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0007144202 (2061 words)

	Amazon.fr : Foreign Correspondence: Livres en anglais: Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks (Nine Parts of Desire) unravels the rope that pulled and tugged her toward adventure and away from "a very small world" where her family had no car and had never boarded a plane or placed an international phone call.
		Preserved in the cellar of her parents' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world.
		Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family.
	www.amazon.fr /Foreign-Correspondence-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0385483732 (689 words)

	Times Community Newspapers - Geraldine Brooks of Waterford earns Pulitzer
		Brooks takes the premise that not only did the letters tell little about the man or what was happening around him, but that much of what March wrote was untrue, a husband's and father's effort to protect his family from the grim obscenities of war.
		Brooks also talked about her conception of March as well as the lessons her book may hold on a more global level.
		Brooks, a former war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, maintains residences in Waterford, Cambridge, Mass., and Sydney, Australia, with husband Tony Horwitz and their son, Nathaniel.
	www.timescommunity.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=16748182&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6 (646 words)

	Powell's Books - March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
		In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether.
		Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible.
		Geraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0143036661 (819 words)

	USATODAY.com - Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Geraldine Brooks has taken a minor character in a major American novel and transformed his story into the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
		In her novel, Brooks, an Australian journalist with dual American citizenship, takes the character of March, a Union military chaplain, through the war while his wife and four daughters remain home in Massachusetts.
		Brooks, reached in Cambridge, Mass., at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, said she was "in a state of disbelief, really.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2006-04-17-arts-pulitzers_x.htm (725 words)

	March by Geraldine Brooks from HarperCollins Publishers Australia
		Brooks further blurs the line between factual Alcotts and fictional Marches by fashioning her flawed hero after the very real Bronson Alcott, Louisa May's idolized father, the transcendentalist philosopher who influenced Emerson and Thoreau.
		Brooks' March is a clergyman; Bronson Alcott is a teacher.
		Building on these touchstones, Brooks takes the opportunity to fill in the blanks, accounting for the root of the family's financial ruin and for Marmee's time away at the military hospital when she assumes the narrative.
	www.harpercollins.com.au /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0732278414 (580 words)

	Geraldine Brooks' 'March' wins Pulitzer - Boston.com
		NEW YORK --"March," Geraldine Brooks' novel that imagines the life of the fictional father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday.
		Brooks depicted the life of John March, the father absent for most of Alcott's famed 1868 novel of four sisters growing up in Massachusetts during the Civil War.
		Brooks beat finalists including E.L. Doctorow, whose "The March," the fictionalized account of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's brutal conquest of the South during the Civil War, had won the National Book Critics Circle Prize.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/04/17/geraldine_brooks_march_wins_pulitzer?mode=PF (429 words)

	Amazon.com: March: Books: Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brooks' husband is Tony Horwitz of Confederates in the Attic.
		Geraldine Brooks is a wonderful illustrator of the nuances of human nature in all its shades-of-gray glory and I appreciate her fine hand.
		Brooks also knows human nature, and we see the difficulties of trying to maintain one's humanity when all around you everyone else is losing theirs.
	www.amazon.com /March-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0143036661 (2794 words)

	"Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks - Salon
		That promise is only partly fulfilled, for Brooks, a former war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, remains devoted to capturing both the ugly essence of the plague and the less seemly sides of human nature that disease brings out.
		The novel is filled with moments of compassion and sadness, as when Anna comes to terms with the lingering presence of the dead: "Sometimes, if I walked the main street of the village in the evening, I felt the press of their ghosts.
		No sooner do her descriptions of a mother's love for her child or a housewife's simple, daily chores lull and mesmerize, than Brooks pans the landscape, bestowing the same respectful observation on a putrid plague boil.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2001/12/06/brooks/index.html (555 words)

	BookPage Interview March 2005: Geraldine Brooks
		Though her mother, whom Brooks calls 'one of the world's great cynics,' advised her to take it with a grain of salt ('nobody in real life is as goody-goody as that Marmee'), Brooks had a strong reaction to the book and its heroine, the irrepressible Jo March.
		Brooks' March is an idealist and a man of faith whose convictions are challenged by the horrors of war.
		Brooks is content with her life in the practical world.
	www.bookpage.com /0503bp/geraldine_brooks.html (1029 words)

	NPR : Geraldine Brooks: Writes Under Any Circumstances
		Geraldine Brooks writes when her son is at school.
		NPR.org, November 20, 2006 ·; Geraldine Brooks is the author of two nonfiction books and two novels.
		Brooks lives with her husband and son in Massachusetts.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6512785 (388 words)

	Geraldine Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Geraldine Brooks, Australian author and journalist, grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and after being educated by the nuns of her convent secondary school attended Sydney University and worked as a reporter for the city's major newspaper,
		Brooks married Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-loup, France, in 1984.
		Geraldine Brooks has penned two works of historical fiction in the bestselling, Year of Wonders and Pulitzer Prize winning, March.
	www.literarysojourn.org /partauthorsbrooks.html (156 words)

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