Artists

Brooks worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Brooks currently divides her time between Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia.

Brooks is author of the internationally bestselling novel People of the Book, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and internationally bestselling novel March. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is also an international bestseller. Brooks is the author of the non-fiction works Foreign Correspondence, which won the Nita B. Kibble Award for women’s writing, and Nine Parts of Desire, an international bestseller that has been translated into seventeen languages.