The Trustees of the Richards Free Library and the Judges of the Sarah Josepha Hale Award have announced that Geraldine Brooks is the 2010 Hale Award Medalist. She will accept the award on October 9, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at the Newport Opera House. Geraldine Brooks trained as a journalist and was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for eleven years. Her fiction works are: March, Year of Wonders, and People of the Book. Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for March in 2006. She has written two non-fiction books: Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence for which she won Nita B. Kibble Award for women’s writing. She continues to write magazine articles. Australian by birth, she and her family have homes in Australia and Massachusetts.
For over fifty years, the Sarah Josepha Hale Award has been given by the trustees of the Richards Free Library, Newport, NH, in recognition of a distinguished body of written work in the field of literature and letters. The award honors Sarah Josepha Hale, author, poet, and essayist, who as editor of Godey’s Lady’s Magazine shaped the opinion of nineteenth century American women.
NOTE: Photo is by Randi Baird.
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