Tracy Chevalier
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born
October 16, 1962
gender
female
place of birth
Washington, DC., The United States
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Born:
19 October 1962 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, 1984. 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, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why do...more
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Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.69 — 25,423 ratings — published 1999 64 editions |
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The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.53 — 4,396 ratings — published 2001 30 editions |
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The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.49 — 3,902 ratings — published 2003 38 editions |
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Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.40 — 3,704 ratings — published 2001 32 editions |
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Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.17 — 1,656 ratings — published 2006 23 editions |
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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 2009 5 editions |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring: Traditional Characters by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2003 |
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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997 3 editions |
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Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories by Tracy Chevalier avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2009 by Tracy Chevalier, Andrew Cowan, Kathryn Hughes, Nathan Hamilton , Rachel Hore , UEA Students avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."
— Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring)
— Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring)
"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."
— Tracy Chevalier
— Tracy Chevalier
"Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles."
— Tracy Chevalier
— Tracy Chevalier
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