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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington‚ DC. She moved to England in 1984‚ and graduated in 1994 from the MA course in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Her first novel‚ The Virgin Blue‚ was chosen by WH Smith for its Fresh Talent promotion in 1997. In 2000‚ HarperCollins published Girl with a Pearl Earring‚ which has gone on to sell over two million copies worldwide. Falling Angels was published to much critical acclaim in 2002. Tracy Chevalier′s new book‚ The Lady and the Unicorn‚ has just been published in hardback.

The film of Girl with a Pearl Earring‚ starring Colin Firth as Vermeer‚...

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Pink Ribbon Girl With a Pearl Earring Pink Ribbon Girl With a Pearl Earring
Griet‚ the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century...
Burning Bright Burning Bright
The last decade of the eighteenth century brought huge political upheaval...
Burning Bright Burning Bright
The last decade of the eighteenth century brought huge political upheaval...

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How did Girl With A Pearl Earring come to be written? What was it about this painting in particular that made you feel there was a story behind it?

I have had a poster of this painting up on my bedroom wall wherever I have lived ever since I was 19 − and I′m 36 now − and I never get tired of looking at it because it′s so mysterious. You have no idea who she really is‚ and when you look at it she′s not exactly a specific person. It′s a genre of Dutch painting called the Troni −...

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