內(nèi)容簡介:History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
作者簡介:Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Tracy Chevalier moved to London in 1984 after earning her bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College in Ohio. Intending to return after six months, she lives there still.
Chevalier worked for several years as a literary editor for a reference book publisher, editing encyclopedias about writers and literature. In 1994, she graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Her first novel, chosen by W. H. Smith for its prestigious Fresh Talent promotion, was published in the U.K. in 1997. Set in France and Switzerland, The Virgin Blue explores the persecution of French Huguenots in the 16th-century through the lens of a contemporary American woman, who unravels the puzzling secrets of her own ancestry. The Virgin Blue will have its first American publication in a Plume edition to be published in 2002.
Chevalier lives with her husband and son and is at work on a third novel, set in London at the dawn of the 20th-century. To date, she has stood face-to-face with 28 of Johannes Vermeer's 35 known paintings. One of her primary goals in life is to see them all in person.