1. She grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
2. She attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney.
3. She has worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
4. She won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University.
5. She has also worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.
6. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller.
7. She won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March.
8. Her latest novel, People of the Book, is a New York Times bestseller.
9. She is married with 2 sons and 3 dogs.
10. She lives in both Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia.
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