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Tracy Chevalier

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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 doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, d ...more

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I have made a career out of looking back. As an historical novelist, my relationship to the past is that of a forager, searching through the foliage for the hidden nut, the unpicked berry, the mushroom that has sprung up. I take that nut or berry or mushroom and make it into a story that gives us a way to relate to the past.

Normally I take the long view, visiting a period far enough back that it h

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“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
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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.”
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1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331

26 votes, 20.2%

1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276

21 votes, 16.3%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291

12 votes, 9.3%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305

10 votes, 7.8%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329

9 votes, 7.0%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

8 votes, 6.2%

1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages

7 votes, 5.4%

1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311

7 votes, 5.4%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731

5 votes, 3.9%

1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246

5 votes, 3.9%

1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75

4 votes, 3.1%

1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336

4 votes, 3.1%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220

4 votes, 3.1%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198

2 votes, 1.6%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128

2 votes, 1.6%

1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754

1 vote, 0.8%

1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528

0 votes, 0.0%

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