LITERATURE + LECTURES

The 2008/2009 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series presents an evening with Geraldine Brooks.

Geraldine Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2006 for her captivating novel, March, the imagined story of the absent father from the classic Little Women.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer called March “a disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet,” and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said, “Brooks’ talent lies in her ability to bring life and personality to history.”

In her newest novel, People of the Book, Brooks, a former correspondent in Bosnia for The Wall Street Journal, creates a story about the survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a lavishly (and real) illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in medieval Spain.

Publishers Weekly says, “Brooks is too good a novelist to belabor her political messages, but her depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians and Muslims could not be more timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless.”

Brooks is also the author of the novel Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works, Nine Parts Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She is married to author Tony Horwitz; they divide their time between the U.S. and Australia.

Presented in association with the Jewish Community Center of Houston.

Photo by Randi Baird.