Novelist and journalist Geraldine Brooks is the guest speaker at the 26th annual Women and Health Lecture, sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University.
Amy Haddad, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton, says the lecture series began in 1989 and has been offered almost every year since then.
Haddad says Brooks won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel titled, “March.” She says Brooks is known for her historical fiction.
Haddad says Brooks likes to take background characters in popular stories and write about them as a main character in her own books.
"And so, in the novel “March,” she takes the point of view of the father in Louisa May Alcott’s, “Little Women.” So March is the family’s last name but it also happens to be about the Civil War and slavery and his role in the war. And you hardly hear about him in “Little Women” so this is his story.”
In most of her other novels, Brook’s the background characters whose voices she brings forward are women.
Geraldine Brooks will speak at Joslyn Art Museum on September 14th. She will be signing books after her presentation. The event is free of charge but reservations are required.
For more information, the website is Creighton.edu/chpe.