In 2006, she was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The stories from the Persian Gulf that she and her husband reported in 1990 received the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for 'Best Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad'. Career Īs a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she covered crises in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. Following graduation, she was a rookie reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor. Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.”-TimePurchase on Zibby's Bookshop: on Bookshop: to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here.Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield.

An unvarnished, at times inspiring story in an arresting, muscular style. It’s called Open, which I’ll talk about tonight.'“Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports autobiographies of all time. Check-it’s one of the better memoirs out there, period. Andre Agassi wrote one of my favorite books of all time.

Now married to Steffi Graf, Andre has two children and is involved in launching charter schools with the Turner-Agassi Foundation. As a refresher, Andre used to be ranked number one in the world in tennis and won eight Grand Slam singles championships. Andre Agassi really needs no introduction. Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.Zibby: 'I am beyond excited to be talking to Andre Agassi today.

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