Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author of the bestselling novels Year of Wonders, People of the Book, Caleb's Crossing, The Secret Chord, Horse, and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction work Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. In 2010 she won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award. Brooks married American journalist and author Tony Horwitz in 1984 and they lived together in Martha's Vineyard until his sudden death in 2019, the subject of her 2025 memoir Memorial Days.