Honours Works Novels Nonfiction Personal life While retaining her Australian citizenship, Brooks became a United States citizen in 2002. She has two sons with her husband Tony Horwitz, Nathaniel and Bizu. Tony died suddenly in 2019 while away on a book tour. References Further reading Review of Caleb's crossing. External links Geraldine Brooks official website Geraldine Brooks interviewed by Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National's The Book Show, regarding her novel, People of the Book "A Muslim Response to 'Nine Parts of Desire'", Resources for and about Muslim Women, Jannah.org Geraldine Brooks' Civil War March, NPR 2008 Interview: Geraldine Brooks, Littoral, blog -Key West Literary Seminar Australian emigrants to the United States American women journalists American women novelists People from Waterford, Virginia Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Radcliffe fellows Converts to Judaism Jewish Australian writers Jewish American writers 1955 births Living people 21st-century American novelists Writers from Sydney 21st-century American memoirists American women memoirists 21st-century American women writers Officers of the Order of Australia Australian women novelists Australian people of American descent The Wall Street Journal people Women war correspondents The Sydney Morning Herald people 21st-century American Jews