Caleb

Geraldine Brooks on ‘Caleb’s Crossing’

In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. His name was Caleb, and a new novel imagines what his life was like, and who the people were that helped shape him.  The new book is called “Caleb’s Crossing.” Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and journalist Geraldine Brooks […]

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