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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author of
the bestselling novels Year of Wonders, People of the Book, Caleb's
Crossing, The Secret Chord, Horse, and March, for which she won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed
non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. A
graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall
Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she
won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brooks married American journalist and author Tony Horwitz in 1984
and they lived together in Martha's Vineyard until his sudden death
in 2019, the subject of her 2025 memoir Memorial Days. Jennifer
Ehle is an award-winning stage and screen actress. She has received
critical acclaim and a Best Performance Tony Award for the debut of
Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and won a second Tony Award in 2006
for her portrayal of three characters in Stoppard’s The Coast of
Utopia. In film, her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC
television adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice
earned her a BAFTA award. Most recently, Jennifer played the wife
of King George VI’s speech therapist, Lionel Logue, in the film The
King’s Speech.
Caleb, the first Native American graduate of Harvard College (class of 1665), struggles to find his place in diametrically opposed cultures. His story is dramatically narrated by the daughter of a Calvinist minister, who is also fighting puritanical strictures. (LJ 3/15/11) (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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