All are capped by the lifetime achievement of Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who remade this country with her courage and her nuanced reporting. “This year, we honor a profound and funny novel (‘The Family Chao’) centered in a Chinese restaurant, a brilliant story (‘Horse’) of 19th-century horseracing with contemporary echoes, a stunning poetry collection that captures who we are now, and a meticulous history that recasts our understanding of World War II. Discover more authors youll love listening to on.

“These remarkable books deliver groundbreaking insights on race and diversity,” jury chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. Browse Geraldine Brookss best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Brooks graduated from the University of Sydney and reported for the Sydney Morning Herald before moving to New York to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 1983. As a budding journalist in Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks was assigned to the horse racing beat in the sports department, with no experience or. Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling. The New York Times Book Review Horse isn’t.

24.49 24 Used from 19.94 30 New from 19.79. Horse by Geraldine Brooks - Reading Guide: 9780399562969 - : Books Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling. Delmont’s nonfiction “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad,” Geraldine Brooks had a stellar career as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, but it was her 2005 novel March which won her the Pulitzer Prize. 21.27 39 Used from 17.29 51 New from 17.30 7 Collectible from 30.00.

NEW YORK (AP) - Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented for literature “that confronts racism and explores diversity.” The journalist and activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault was honored for lifetime achievement.īesides Brooks’ “Horse,” Chang’s “The Family Chao” and Jones’ “Alive at the End of the World,” judges also cited Matthew F.

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