Frances Bavier

Bavier died from a heart attack in 1989. They have one child and divide their time between homes in Virginia, United States and Sydney, Australia. She played the part of Mrs Barley in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Brooks married Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-loup, France, in 1984. Bavier has appeared in many plays on Broadway, including Point of No Return alongside Henry Fonda. Her new novel, March, will be published in early 2005. Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 - December 6, 1989) was an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bea on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s. Set in 1666, Year Of Wonders follows a young woman's battle to save her family and her soul when the plague suddenly strikes the small Derbyshire village of Eyam.

Her first novel, Year of Wonders, published in 2001, is an international bestseller. Kibble Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel adventure about a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them. Foreign Correspondence (1997), which won the Nita B. Her first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among the Muslim women of the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages.

She completed a Master's Degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York City in 1983, and worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. She attended Sydney University and worked as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. Geraldine Brooks is an Australian author, who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney.