Tracy chevalier biography
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Tracy Chevalier
American-British novelist (born )
Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October )[1] is an American-British novelist. She fryst vatten best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
Personal background
[edit]Chevalier was born on 19 October , in Washington, D.C.[2] She fryst vatten the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with The Washington Post for more than 30 years. Chevalier has an older sister, Kim Chevalier, who resides in Soulan, France; and a brother, Michael Chevalier, who lives in Salida, Colorado.[3] As of [update], Chevalier lives in London with her husband, Jonathan Drori.[4][5][6]
She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, in After receiving her bachelor's grad in English from Oberlin College in , she moved to England, w
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Tracy Chevalier
Goodreads Author
Born
in Washington, DC., The United StatesWebsite
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Genre
Historical Fiction, Fiction
Influences
Margaret Atwood, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel
Member Since
May
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Born:
19 October in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.
Childhood:
Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Education:
BA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, No one was surprised that I went there; I was made for such a progressive, liberal place.
MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, p
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Interview
An interview with Tracy Chevalier in which she discusses how 17th century paintings aided in her research for Girl With A Pearl Earring, why she chose Vermeer&#;s work to write about, and how most of the characters&#; looks are based on people in Vermeer&#;s other paintings.
Everyday life in 17th century Delft is so vivid in Girl with a Pearl Earring. How did you conduct your research? Where?
Most of it, I confess, was done in my armchair. I read a lot (especially Simon Schama's The Embarrassment Of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in The Golden Age) and looked at a lot of paintings. Luckily 17th-century Dutch paintings are mainly scenes from everyday life and so it was easy to see what houses looked like inside and how they were run. I also went to Delft for four days and just wandered around, taking it in. Vermeer's house no longer exists, but there are plenty of 17th-century buildings still l