She’s summoned to Sarajevo to check out a 15th-century Spanish-made Haggadah, a codex gone missing in Bosnia during a 1992 siege. In Sydney, ace (and gorgeous) old-book conservator Hannah Heath gets a 2 a.m. Its recovery makes for an enthralling historical mystery. Geraldine Brooks photos are © Randi Baird.From 1480 Seville to 1996 Sarajevo, a priceless scripture is chased by fanatics political and religious. In 2016, she was named an Officer in the Order of Australia. They have two sons, Nathaniel and Bizu, She now lives with a dog named Bear and a mare named Valentine by an old mill pond on Martha’s Vineyard and spends as much time as she can in Australia. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence and The Idea of Home.īrooks married fellow journalist and author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup France in 1984 and were together until his sudden death in 2019. Her first novel, Year of Wonders is an an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and currently optioned for a limited series by Olivia Coleman’s production company. Her novels People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing and The Secret Chord all were New York Times Bestsellers. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. She returned to Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer in 2021. The following year they received a citation for excellence for their series, “War and Peace.” In 2006 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.

In 1990, with her husband Tony Horwitz, she won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, attending Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney.

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