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Susan Joyce Vreeland (January 20, 1946 – August 23, 2017) was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. [1] The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, [2] while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by ...
Sep 4, 2017 · Susan Vreeland, who drew on her love of art to fashion well-regarded novels about paintings and those who paint or own them, died on Aug. 23 in San Diego. She was 71. The cause was complications...
Sep 1, 2017 · Susan Vreeland blended visual art, literature and fiction into bestselling novels and established herself as one of San Diego’s most admired authors. She died Aug. 23 at the age of 71.
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I lived my happy Southern California childhood in a middle-class neighborhood of boxy pastel stuccoed tract houses. My world consisted of summers in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, Easter outfits complete with straw bonnet and white gloves, Sunday school with still-loved hymns, the sharp, eye-watering smell of Toni home permanents, the giddy j...
My mother's more placid love for visual art took root in me at a young age. She called colors by their fruit or flower names--tangerine, peach, apricot, lavender, lilac. She cherished the hand-painted china and portraits by her mother, the small, oil landscapes with thick impasto by her father. She made a place in our home for my step great-grandfa...
Majoring in literature and minoring in library science, I slipped through college in the sixties in conservative San Diego without even seeing a demonstration, though I do remember where I was when I heard the news that President Kennedy was shot. In the library, of course. Word passed through the large reading room like a wave, and every building ...
In 1971 I took my first of more than half a dozen trips to Europe, an educational tour guided by humanities professors using Kenneth Clark's opinionated and passionate book Civilisationas text. In his opening chapter he quotes John Ruskin: "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their wo...
Concurrent with teaching in the 1980s, I began writing occasional features for newspapers and magazines on subjects of education, art, and cultural topics. Travel articles took me throughout the Southwest, and to Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Himalayas, trekking in the Khumbu region below Mt. Everest, an extraordinary experience staying with...
I also attended summer writers' conferences, most notably Bread Loaf in August 1996. Here in this high Vermont meadow had walked and talked and read every significant writer in America since Robert Frost inspired its inception in 1926. I felt I had climbed near heaven. The experience led me to the short stories that eventually became Girl in Hyacin...
Sep 1, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Susan Vreeland, a popular and well-regarded novelist who blended her love for literature and visual art in “Girl in Hyacinth Blue” and other works of fiction, has died at age 71. Vreeland’s agent Barbara Braun said the author died Aug. 23 in San Diego after undergoing heart surgery.
Susan's List << >>. "Anyone who has been caught under the spell of great art will already. understand the wisdom of Vreeland's fiction..." --Chicago Sun-Times. (Background Image: Ochre Cliffs of Roussillon, France.)
Aug 23, 2017 · Susan Vreeland was an internationally renowned best-selling author and four-time winner of the Theodor Geisel Award for Fiction, the San Diego Book Award’s highest honor. She wrote historical fiction on art-related themes, and her books have been translated into 26 languages.
