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5 days ago · Welcome! You’ve come to the right place to find out more about me and my books. My new novel The Glassmaker is published this spring in the USA and France, followed by Australia and New Zealand this summer, and the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain in the autumn. The release dates are on the Events page.
Tracy Rose Chevalier FRSL (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
About Me. I was born and grew up in Washington, DC. After graduating with a BA in English from Oberlin College in Ohio, I moved to London in the mid-1980s. I now have dual nationality, but my accent is still American. I worked for several years in publishing as a reference book editor, while writing short stories on the side.
6 days ago · There is an immediate richness to the historical fiction of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures), one that goes beyond carefully researched details and evocative prose, and into deep emotion.In her 12th book, The Glassmaker, Chevalier weaves a tapestry of character and conflict, change and stability, to create a story that elegantly glides along the line between ...
Interview with Tracy Chevalier. The historical novelist known for Girl with the Pearl Earring sets her newest, The Last Runaway, in 1850 Ohio, where a Quaker woman helps run the... Read more... 55 likes · 22 comments.
Tracy Chevalier has 65 books on Goodreads with 1751162 ratings. Tracy Chevalier’s most popular book is Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into forty-five languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, a play, and an opera.
Tracy Chevalier is, without doubt, best known for her hugely successful novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), which ingeniously combines historical fact with imagination to tell the story behind the painting of the same name by the 17th-century Dutch genre painter, Jan Vermeer.
Sep 29, 2019 · Interview: Tracy Chevalier, Author Of 'A Single Thread' Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for...
Jul 25, 2012 · Tracy Chevalier pulls stories from paintings and historical episodes, finding the human thread behind opaque images. Her best-known book is Girl With a Pearl Earring, inspired by a Vermeer painting; other books include The Lady and the Unicorn and Burning Bright, about two children who become neighbours of William Blake.
