Tracy chevalier biography
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Tracy Chevalier
American-British novelist (born )
Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October )[1] is an American-British novelist. She fryst vatten best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
Personal background
[edit]Chevalier was born on 19 October , in Washington, D.C.[2] She fryst vatten the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with The Washington Post for more than 30 years. Chevalier has an older sister, Kim Chevalier, who resides in Soulan, France; and a brother, Michael Chevalier, who lives in Salida, Colorado.[3] As of [update], Chevalier lives in London with her husband, Jonathan Drori.[4][5][6]
She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, in After receiving her bachelor's grad in English from Oberlin College in , she moved to England, w
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Tracy Chevalier
Goodreads Author
Born
in Washington, DC., The United StatesWebsite
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Genre
Historical Fiction, Fiction
Influences
Margaret Atwood, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel
Member Since
May
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Born:
19 October 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, 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, 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, p
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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, L