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Tracy Chevalier

Autor(a) de Girl with a Pearl Earring

30+ Works 39,047 Membros 1,319 Reviews 113 Favorited

About the Author

Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962 in Washington, D.C. After receiving a 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 in creative writing at the University mostrar mais of East Anglia. She is the author of several novels including The Virgin Blue, Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures, and The Last Runaway. Her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Tracy Chevalier

Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999) 17,220 cópias
The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) 4,768 cópias
Falling Angels (2001) 3,594 cópias
The Virgin Blue (1997) 3,544 cópias
Remarkable Creatures (2009) 3,214 cópias
Burning Bright (2007) 2,248 cópias
The Last Runaway (2013) 1,683 cópias
At the Edge of the Orchard (2016) 941 cópias
A Single Thread (2019) 898 cópias
New Boy (2017) 544 cópias
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre (2016) — Editor — 297 cópias
Encyclopedia of the Essay (1997) — Editor — 26 cópias
Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods (2011) — Editor & Contributor — 22 cópias

Associated Works

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (2005) — Contribuinte — 254 cópias
Girl with a Pearl Earring [2003 film] (2003) — Original novel — 207 cópias
Alberta and Freedom (1931) — Prefácio, algumas edições137 cópias
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People (2011) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
The Sunday Night Book Club (2006) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Three Things I’d Tell My Younger Self (2018) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias

Etiquetado

17th century (268) 19th century (221) American (108) American literature (125) art (970) art history (141) audiobook (124) book club (111) Delft (115) ebook (111) England (422) fiction (3,996) fossils (226) France (354) friendship (141) historical (685) historical fiction (3,370) historical novel (145) history (287) Holland (292) Kindle (104) library (105) literature (168) London (199) Netherlands (330) novel (520) Ohio (113) own (212) painting (219) paleontology (132) Quakers (121) read (488) romance (214) slavery (114) tapestry (160) to-read (1,413) unread (140) Vermeer (504) William Blake (110) women (217)

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Chevalier, Tracy
Nome de batismo
Chevalier, Tracy Rose
Data de nascimento
1962-10-19
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
EUA
Local de nascimento
Washington, D.C., EUA
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Educação
Oberlin College (B.A. ∙ 1984)
University of East Anglia (M.A. ∙ 1994)
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Ocupação
historical novelist
reference book editor
Premiações
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (2008)
Agente
Jonny Geller (Curtis Brown)
Pequena biografia
Tracy Chevalier (born October 1962 in Washington, DC) is a bestselling historical novelist. She lives in London with her husband and son.

Chevalier was raised in Washington, D.C and 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 in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Um livro bobinho para se ler para passar o tempo. Não sei para que ficar colando frases e expressões francesas no meio do texto, ficar chic?
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Estatísticas

Obras
30
Also by
9
Membros
39,047
Popularidade
#461
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
1,319
ISBNs
703
Idiomas
26
Favorito
113

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