Geraldine Brooks AO is a journalist and author who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Wall Street Journal. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel March. Novels Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord were New York Times’ bestsellers, while Year of Wonders was an international bestseller. She is also the author of non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her novel Horse won multiple awards, including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award and Fiction Indie Book Award for 2023.
