March enlists with the Union as an army chaplain at the early stages of the Civil War. Interview between Geraldine Brooks and Bill Kenower: Most recently, she published Caleb’s Crossing (2011), and she is currently working on completing a new novel for Viking, titled The Secret Chord, which will be published September 2015. She followed this win with the book that she started writing before March was conceived, People of the Book (2008), which won Australian book awards. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, published in 2001, became an international bestseller. Foreign Correspondence (1997) won the Nita Kibble Literary Award for women’s writing. Brooks’ first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz. As a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, with the stories from the Persian Gulf, which she and her husband reported in 1990, receiving the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for “Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad.” In 2006, she was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Geraldine Brooks: Geraldine Brooks was a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, she completed a Master’s degree at New York City’s Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. Interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, Geraldine Brooks

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