Geraldine Brooks on balancing fiction with truth
July 9, 2026
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as posted by the channelC-SPAN's "America's Book Club" — Geraldine Brooks, an Australian-American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, spoke on how she balanced truth with creativity when there were gaps in the research and history while writing historical fiction books.
Watch the full interview, filmed at @FolgerLibrary, SUNDAY at 6pm and 9pm ET/PT on C-SPAN
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