Year of Wonders Lesson Plan

Geraldine Brooks is an award-winning writer and journalist from Sydney, Australia. After winning the Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, Brooks moved to New York City and obtained her Master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. Soon after graduation, she became a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Work brought her to many countries in crisis across the globe, allowing her to travel to Africa, the Balkans, and the Persian Gulf to report on the news directly at the source. Her dedication and strong resolve to tell a compelling story through her articles allowed her to receive the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for “Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting...