Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On Writer’s Block: “Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances– by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no …
Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations
Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers’ organisations
Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist
