Geraldine Brooks (Author)

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). In addition, she has published two works of nonfiction: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Knopf, 1995) and Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over (Doubleday, 1998).