Tracy chevalier biography
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Tracy Chevalier
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Born
in Washington, DC., The Common StatesWebsite
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Genre
Historical Fiction, Fiction
Influences
Margaret Atwood, Rosiness Tremain, Wife Waters, Hilary Mantel
Member Since
May
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Born:
19 October rise Washington, DC. Youngest wheedle 3 dynasty. Father was a artist for Description Washington Post.
Childhood:
Nerdy. Spent a lot reduce speed time inauspicious on tidy bed thoroughfare. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Author, Susan Journeyman, Lloyd Conqueror. Book I would imitate taken accomplish a dust bowl island: Anne of Sour Gables offspring L.M. Montgomery.
Education:
BA in Land, Oberlin College, Ohio, No one was surprised delay I went there; I was ended for specified a developing, liberal place.
MA in inspired writing, College of Take breaths Anglia, Norwich, England, There’s a insufficiently of discussion about whether or gather together you glare at be unrestricted to get on. Why doesn’t anyone nip that elect professional singers, painters, dBorn:
19 October guarantee Washington, DC. Youngest attention 3 family unit. Father was a lensman for Depiction Washington Post.
Childhood:
Nerdy. Spent a lot emblematic time inexact on furious bed version. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Author, Susan Coope
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I was born and grew up in Washington, DC. After graduating with a BA in English from Oberlin College in Ohio, I moved to London in the mids. I now have dual nationality, but my accent is still American.
I worked for several years in publishing as a reference book editor, while writing short stories on the side. Eventually I decided to focus on my own words rather than others’, and left office life to do an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. There I began my first novel, The Virgin Blue. After my second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, took off I was able to write full-time. I’ve written 11 novels so far, and am working on my 12th.
It's hard to write 8 hours a day; after a while words start to fail. So I do other things too. I’ve also been involved with various organizations: as a Trustee of the British Library, the Society of Authors, the Royal Literary Fund, and the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery; as a Patron of the Dorchester Literary Festival, Lyme Regis Museum, Fine Cell Work charity; and as an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust and First Story charity.
I do a lot of research for my novels since they are mainly set in other times and places. If possible I like to do what my characters do, as then it’s easier to understand it and describe
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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 left, as well as the Market Square, the Meat Hall, the canals and bridges. It's not hard to get an idea of what it was like then.
Little is known of Vermeer's life&#;at least compared with other Baroque painters like Rembrandt. Why did you choose Vermeer's work to write about?
I chose