| Tracy Chevalier | |
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 Tracy Chevalier signing books at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2007 |
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| Born | 1962 Washington, D.C., USA |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genres | Historical fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Girl with a Pearl Earring, Burning Bright |
| Official website | |
Tracy Chevalier (born October 1962 in Washington, DC) is a bestselling historical novelist. She is of Romande Swiss descent (with possible French Huguenot ancestry) on her father's side, and lives in London with her husband and son.
Chevalier was raised in Washington, D.C and 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 in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her tutors on the course were novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain.
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. Burning Bright, published in March 2007, concerns two children who become neighbours of William Blake in London in 1792. Her latest novel is Remarkable Creatures, based on the life of the English 19th-century fossil collector Mary Anning.
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 0-00-717835-2
- Remarkable Creatures (HarperCollins, August 2009) ISBN 0-00-717837-9
References
- ^ Tracy Chevalier at infloox.com
External links
- Official Website
- Tracy Chevalier at Contemporary Writers
- Tracy Chevalier talks about The Lady and the Unicorn on MeetTheAuthor.co.uk
- British Library Podcast Tracy Chevalier reads from her novel Burning Bright and discusses William Blake's Notebook with Blake scholar Michael Phillips.
- Waterstone's Books Quarterly article Tracy Chevalier writes about the inspiration behind Remarkable Creatures.
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