Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist whose novel March, which retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of the March family's largely absent father, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006. In 1990, she and her husband, Tony Horwitz, received the Overseas Press Club of America's Hal Boyle Award for Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad for their work covering the Persian Gulf. Updated July 2015