Geraldine Brooks has been awarded the 2025 Library of Congress prize for American Fiction. This prize is given to an American fiction writer with a long, enduring career and whose books have a strong, unique and imaginative voice.
Geraldine Brooks' first novel, Year of Wonders, was published in 2001. Her novel March, inspired by Little Women, won the 2006 Pulitzer Price for Fiction. Brooks published Memorial Days in 2025, a memoir about her husband, their marriage, and his sudden death.
The first prize was awarded in 2008 to Herman Wouk. Subsequent winners include John Grisham, Louise Erdrich, and Colson Whitehead. Last year's winner was James McBride.
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