Tracy Chevalier
American-British novelist; Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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- Tracy Chevalier is an American-British novelist of mostly historical fiction.
- Her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), was based on Vermeer's painting and became a 2003 film.
- The novel has been translated into 38 languages.
Key facts
- Born
- 19 October 1962, Washington, D.C.1
- Education
- BA in English, Oberlin College (1984); MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia1
- Novels
- The Virgin Blue (1997); Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999); Burning Bright; The Last Runaway (2013); At the Edge of the Orchard; A Single Thread1
- Lives
- London1
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