Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. She is an occasional contributor to The Los Angeles Times and The Nation, and lectures widely on literature and culture. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Culture among others. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Wellesley College, fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the W. Kaplan has received numerous academic honors, including the Robert D. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.Ĭarla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and the author of several books, including The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Miss Anne in Harlem, and the highly acclaimed Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, the first published collection of a major African American woman's letters- which made Kaplan a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Other novels, Year of Wonders and People of the Book, are international bestsellers, translated into more than 25 languages. Brooks’ most recent novel, Caleb’s Crossing, was a New York Times best seller. In 2006 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, and in that same year she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March.
Brooks covered environmental issues as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, and at The Wall Street Journal she focused on crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Geraldine Brooks is an award-winning author and journalist.
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