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19/04/2006
2006 Pulitzer Fiction Prize for March
Australian author and journalist Geraldine Brooks' second novel, March, has been awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The book tells the story of John March, the mainly absent father in Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women.
Little Women depicts the life of the March women - sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and their mother, Marmee - during the American Civil War, while their father and husband, John, is away to war as chaplain for the Union Army.
In March, Brooks imagines for him a dramatic midlife reckoning.
She is also the author of Nine Parts of Desire, which explored the world of Islamic women; Foreign Correspondance, a memoir detailing her search for the international pen pals of her youth; and Year of Wonders, an historical novel of one English village's battle with the Bubonic Plague.
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry went to Claudia Emerson for Late Wife; the Prize for Biography went to Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; and the Prize for General Nonfiction went to Caroline Elkins for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya.
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