The Library of Congress has awarded Geraldine Brooks, a Jewish author whose best-selling novels are often inspired by Jewish history, its prestigious 2025 Prize for American Fiction. Brooks, a former ...

The Library of Congress (LoC) has announced that the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction will be awarded to Geraldine Brooks, the author of the historical-fiction novels March (2005) ...

New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks is coming to Glastonbury on Sept. 28 to discuss “The Art of the Historical Novel: Making Fiction from Fact,” according to ...

The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks is a fascinating glimpse of domestic life on 17th-century Martha's Vineyard as the author weaves a tale based on the life of the first ...

Geraldine M. Brooks was born January 5, 1921, in St. Louis to the late William and Addie Nicholson. She was the youngest of seven children. Her brothers William, Lawrence, and Nick; her sister, ...

When I reach Geraldine Brooks at her West Tisbury home, she’s looking out her kitchen window at her horse and donkey. “Horses were my midlife crisis. I was in my 50s. I went on a trail-ride on a ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented for literature “that confronts ...

Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.