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Geraldine Brooks
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Geraldine Brooks is the author of the novels The Secret Chord, Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, March (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006) and Year of Wonders, recently optioned by Olivia Coleman. She has also written three works of non-fiction: Nine Parts of Desire, based on her experiences among Muslim women in the mideast, Foreign Correspondence, a memoir about an Australian childhood enriched by penpals around the world and her adult quest to find them, and The Idea of Home:Boyer Lectures 2011. Brooks started out as a reporter in her hometown, Sydney, and went on to cover conflicts...
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Al Pacino
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Alfredo James Pacino is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and SAG award-winning American film and stage actor and director, widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. He is well-known for his roles as Michael Corleone in the trilogy, Tony Montana in , Sonny Wortzik in , Frank Serpico in , Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in , and Roy Cohn in . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 for his role in after being nominated 7 times beforehand for various roles.
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