Geraldine Brooks

Brooks's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for March placed her among the most celebrated novelists of her time. The novel, which reimagines the father from Little Women as an abolitionist soldier, was praised for its historical sweep and emotional depth. Beyond the Pulitzer, she has earned an Overseas Press Club Award for her journalism and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016, Australia honored her with the Order of Australia for her distinguished service to literature and journalism. Her books have repeatedly landed on bestseller lists and been translated into over twenty languages, a sign of her global reach.