In her latest novel, Geraldine Brooks explores complex themes of race and slavery, romance and friendship, across generations — and connected by one horse. The novel "Horse," published in June 2022, ...

I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my tear-splattered journal. This eruption of anger and sadness came more than ...

The Library of Congress has awarded Geraldine Brooks, a Jewish author whose best-selling novels are often inspired by Jewish history, its prestigious 2025 Prize for American Fiction. Brooks, a former ...

The moment I had been expecting, even waiting for, comes at the very end of Geraldine Brooks' beautifully written and brave new memoir, "Memorial Days. " The howls of anguished protest. Brooks wrote ...

Editor's note: This episode originally broadcast on July 15, 2022. How is it possible that the bones of a champion racehorse were not too long ago consigned to the dusty attic of the Smithsonian — a ...

'Memorial Days' is a memoir of grief, but also a practical reminder of the impact of money on anyone's life When author Geraldine Brooks's husband, Tony Horwitz, died suddenly in 2019 at age 60, she ...

There is no shortage of memoirs on grief. There is Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which explores the aftermath of her losing both her child and husband in a short period of time. It is ...

Best-selling author Michael Lewis, W. Kamau Bell and Geraldine Brooks join Washington Post opinion editor David Shipley to talk about putting a spotlight on exemplary federal employees featured in The ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Geraldine Brooks, a journalist and Pulitzer prize-winning historical fiction author who wrote 2008's well-received "People of the Book" set in war-torn Sarajevo, has won the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Geraldine Brooks is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Ceremony as a Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. The year ...