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flag Brooks reflects on her journey from racing writer to acclaimed novelist after receiving a scholarship.

flag Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks reflects on her unlikely journey from a tedious junior racing writer in the late 1970s to an international journalist and acclaimed novelist. flag Her career pivoted after mentorship and a scholarship to Columbia University, leading to assignments in Cleveland and the volatile Middle East, where she covered the Kurdish uprising and fled with refugees.

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