Geraldine Brooks, American Actress

Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

Read "The Secret Chord The Australian Bestseller" by Geraldine Brooks available from Rakuten Kobo. A unique and vivid novel that brings to life the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace, ...

Horse A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud…

Geraldine Brooks’ new novel, “The Secret Chord,” is based on the life of the Biblical David, a charismatic leader who used terrible violence to consolidate his power. Brooks appears Thursday, Jan. 28, at McCaw Hall; sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures.

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Year of Wonders: A haunting historical literary fiction novel of human resilience in 17th century England eBook : Brooks, Geraldine: Amazon.com.au: Books

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer’s latest novel, based on the true story of a champion thoroughbred, represents historical fiction at its best.

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