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Geraldine Brooks | 2009 | <i>March</i>

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is the author of novels including <em>People of the Book</em> and <em>March,</em> which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2005. As a journalist for <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> in the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.<br /><br /> In this recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, Brooks reads from <em>March</em>, which tells the story of Captain March, known to readers of Louisa May Alcott's <em>Little Women</em> as the character of the father and husband who has left the family to fight in the Civil War.