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Tracy Chevalier

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Born:
19 October 1962 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, 1984. 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, 1994. 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, painters, d ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,061,988 ratings · 43,117 reviews · 60 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girl with a Pearl Earring 3.93 avg rating — 761,148 ratings — published 1999 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 53,610 ratings — published 2009 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady and the Unicorn 3.70 avg rating — 46,535 ratings — published 2003 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Runaway 3.85 avg rating — 38,242 ratings — published 2013 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virgin Blue 3.67 avg rating — 33,793 ratings — published 1997 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Single Thread 3.75 avg rating — 31,479 ratings — published 2019 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Angels 3.62 avg rating — 26,563 ratings — published 2001 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Edge of the Orchard 3.67 avg rating — 22,384 ratings — published 2016 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glassmaker 3.97 avg rating — 19,788 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burning Bright 3.41 avg rating — 15,244 ratings — published 2007 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I'm delighted to say that THE GLASSMAKER is published today in the USA and Canada - at last! I have been working on this novel since 2019, researching and writing a lot of it during the pandemic, which is partly what slowed me down.

It's also a slightly longer book than I usually write, plus it covers 500 years of Venetian history! It's about a young woman who decides to do what women don't do ofte Read more of this blog post »

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“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
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“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”
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1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331

26 votes, 20.6%

1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276

21 votes, 16.7%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291

12 votes, 9.5%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305

9 votes, 7.1%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

8 votes, 6.3%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329

8 votes, 6.3%

1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages

7 votes, 5.6%

1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311

7 votes, 5.6%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731

5 votes, 4.0%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220

4 votes, 3.2%

1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246

4 votes, 3.2%

1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336

4 votes, 3.2%

1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75

4 votes, 3.2%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198

2 votes, 1.6%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128

2 votes, 1.6%

1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754

1 vote, 0.8%

1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528

0 votes, 0.0%

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