Tracy Chevalier
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Tracy Chevalier (born in Washington, DC in October of 1962) is a bestselling historical novelist. Her career began with the book The Virgin Blue but she became well known with her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, a book based on the creation of the famous painting by Vermeer. The film based on the novel received three Academy Award nominations in 2004.
Chevalier was raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland. After receiving her B.A. in English from Oberlin College, she moved to England in 1984 where she worked several years as a reference book editor. Leaving her job in 1993, she began a year long M.A. program in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her tutors on the course were novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain.
Chevalier, who is of Swiss descent (with possible French Huguenot ancestry) on her father's side, lives in London with her husband and son.
Her most recent book, published in March 2007, is Burning Bright and concerns two children who become neighbours of William Blake in London in 1792.
[edit] Published works
- The Virgin Blue (London: Plume, 1997) ISBN 0-452-28444-9
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (New York: Dutton, 1999) ISBN 0-525-94527-X
- Falling Angels (New York: Dutton, 2001) ISBN 0-525-94581-4
- The Lady and the Unicorn (New York: Dutton Adult, 2003) ISBN 0-525-94767-1
- Burning Bright (HarperCollins, March 2007) ISBN 0007178352
