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Geraldine Brooks

Born and raised in Sydney, Geraldine Brooks is a journalist and novelist.

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Two Villages, Two Eras, Two Plagues

In the summer of 1990, before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, I took a rare break from my job as a...

Apr 23, 2020
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A Week in the Life of Geraldine Brooks

It’s dark when we nose down the driveway on the way to the 7 a.m. ferry. This year, for the first...

Dec 24, 2015
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MARCH By Geraldine Brooks (Viking, 280 pages, $24.95) In her 1998 memoir, "Foreign Correspondence,"...

Mar 11, 2005
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YEAR OF WONDERS: A NOVEL OF THE PLAGUE By Geraldine Brooks As a correspondent for The Wall Street...

Aug 3, 2001
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Pride in the Land Down Under

SYDNEY, Australia -- Phillip Adams shares his study with a marble sculpture of Alexander the...

Sep 29, 2000
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The Olympic Games Will Be Recorded In 'Ode to Ian Thorpe' and Other Works

As she slams a volley past Monica Seles, Venus Williams is unaware that she has become a...

Sep 27, 2000
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Aussie Show Pokes Fun at TV Coverage

Heralded by portentous theme music and titled "The Dream," Sydney's late-night Olympics roundup...

Sep 26, 2000
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Muslim Women's Veiled Optimism

SYDNEY, Australia -- Fatema Hamid's first-ever race in a swimming pool took place Friday, when she...

Sep 25, 2000
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A Not Enviously 'Green' Olympics

In a glossy souvenir booklet available at the Olympic media center, General Motors Corp. devotes a...

Sep 22, 2000
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My Life as a Dog, or What It's Like To Join the Olympics' Opening Ceremony

SYDNEY, Australia -- The crowd roars. Flashbulbs flicker like lightning bugs across the stands. A...

Sep 15, 2000
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As Olympics Loom, Australians Agonize Over Aborigine Issues

HOBART, Australia -- On a fall day in 1804, soon after the first convicts arrived here in Tasmania,...

Aug 21, 2000
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Aussies Don't Seem Awed by the Games; It Becomes a Sport to Spoof the Spectacle

SYDNEY, Australia -- The view from a restaurant atop one of this city's harborside skyscrapers is a...

Aug 17, 2000
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Sheep-Dog Competitions Grow in U.S., But Scotsman Takes Everyone to School

UNION BRIDGE, Md. -- Corn and soybeans sprout from these rolling fields, but at Mary Brighoff's...

Jul 13, 1999
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Stuck With Monkey on its Back, Air Force Tackles a Hairy Issue

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- Amid spiky yuccas and cholla cactus, a dry desert wind snaps the American flag...

Dec 30, 1997
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A Volume on Antarctic Lingo Will Make Slang Crystal Clear

SYDNEY, Australia -- Bernadette Hince used to think she had a pretty good vocabulary. As science...

Jul 1, 1997
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Gerber Depends on Babies To Taste Test Its New Foods

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The food critic eyes the dish placed deferentially before him. A faint pink...

Dec 4, 1996
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