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Journalist

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist known for her in-depth investigative reporting and unique narrative style. She has over 30 years of experience in the news industry, having worked as a journalist and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, among other news organizations.

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“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?”

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“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”

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Book:People of the Book: A Novel

Source: People of the Book: A Novel

“Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.”

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“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”

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Book:People of the Book: A Novel

Source: People of the Book: A Novel

About the Author

Born: September 14, 1955
Died: June 19, 1977
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 103

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