Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth, said Albert Camus. Geraldine Brooks spent half her life as a journalist, running after the truth in difficult places where despots and warlords were desperate to obfuscate. Later she turned to fiction, but her novels always hew as closely as possible to historical truth. In this talk, she will discuss her process as a novelist and how it is informed by the tool kit she acquired as a foreign corespondent covering conflicts in the Mideast, Africa, and the Balkans.

A book signing will follow the lecture and Q&A.