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Tracy Chevalier

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in Washington, DC., The United States

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Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Margaret Atwood, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel

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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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	Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.92 avg rating — 714,098 ratings — published 1999 — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remarkable Creatures 3.87 avg rating — 49,373 ratings — published 2009 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady and the Unicorn 3.70 avg rating — 44,523 ratings — published 2003 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Runaway 3.84 avg rating — 35,593 ratings — published 2013 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virgin Blue 3.67 avg rating — 31,933 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Single Thread 3.75 avg rating — 25,989 ratings — published 2019 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Angels 3.60 avg rating — 25,038 ratings — published 2001 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Edge of the Orchard 3.65 avg rating — 20,042 ratings — published 2016 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	New Boy 3.49 avg rating — 8,404 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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February 2023

Vermeer opening

In February 1998 I began researching the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring. Little did I know that 25 years later I would still be talking about that painting and that painter. Indeed, I seem to have become something of a Vermeer ambassador.

This became apparent last week when I visited the new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam during Press Day. I was reviewing it for BBC Radio

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Tracy Chevalier wrote a new blog post February 2023 In February 1998 I began researching the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring. Little did I know that 25 years later I would still be talking about that Read more of this blog post »
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Tracy Chevalier answered Wendy's question: Hello! I enjoy your books very much! I do a fair amount of audio reading as I work on the road. I have an odd question. At some point, I read a novel with a section in which a doll maker discussed why she makes dolls. It was so poignant that I stopped the car and transcribed a whole paragraph, but have lost the paper. Was this in a book of yours? I've looked. I'm a fiber artist interested in dolls. TY!! Hi Wendy - That's not one of my books, but I'm wondering if it might be The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal?
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Tracy Chevalier made a comment on October 2021 " Ha ha! Concentrating too hard to sing! "
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“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
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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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8 votes, 13.1%

News of the World

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8 votes, 13.1%

The Bookshop on the Corner

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7 votes, 11.5%

Black-Eyed Susans

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6 votes, 9.8%

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

by Scott Stambach

5 votes, 8.2%

What Lies Between Us

by Nayomi Munaweera

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At the Edge of the Orchard

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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 vote, 1.6%

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