Australian · b. 1955
Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "March," which imagined the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" as a Union Army chaplain. The Australian-American author writes historical fiction built on meticulous research, finding in the past dramatic material for contemporary readers. Brooks worked as a foreign correspondent before turning to novels, bringing journalistic rigor to literary storytelling.