Tracy Chevalier
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Tracy Chevalier (born in Washington, DC in October of 1962) is a historical novelist whose career began with the book The Virgin Blue but who became well known with a book on the creation of the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer. The film based on the latter novel received three Academy Award nominations in 2004.
Chevalier was raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland. After receiving her B.A. in English from Oberlin College, she moved to England in 1984 where she worked several years as a reference book editor. Leaving her job in 1993, she began a year long M.A. program in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her tutors on the course were novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain.
Chevalier, who is of Swiss descent (with possible French Huguenot ancestry) on her father's side, is currently working on a book about William Blake. She lives in London with her husband and son.
[edit] Published works
- The Virgin Blue (London: Plume, 1997) ISBN 0-452-28444-9
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (New York: Dutton, 1999) ISBN 0-525-94527-X
- Falling Angels (New York: Dutton, 2001) ISBN 0-525-94581-4
- The Lady and the Unicorn (New York: Dutton Adult, 2003) ISBN 0-525-94767-1
