SWITCH: Mobile | ePaper | Subscribe

Homes Rentals Jobs Autos Contests

Little Women

Series makes sense of Civil War at Pleasant Valley library

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 8:41am

What happens when an idealist goes to war? How did the bloodiest battle in all of American history go down? And how did those who witnessed the Civil War firsthand write about a war that continues to send shock waves through American culture 150 years later?

Features, Abraham Lincoln, Books, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Geraldine Brooks, Little Women, March, Slavery, Weber State University Read more Comments

'March' from the void: Pulitzer Prize-winning author to discuss her book about the Civil War during visit to Ogden

J. Michael Call Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 4:02pm

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks enjoys writing in the void.

That void has been a plague-ravaged English village in 1666 where the townsfolk voluntarily quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. It's also the mystery surrounding the life of a 17th-century Wampanoag named Caleb Cheeshahteaumauck, who became the first America Indian to graduate from Harvard. And in her 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "March," Brooks jumped into a void left wide open in one of America's most beloved works of fiction, "Little Women."

Features, Books, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, Little Women, Featured Read more Comments