![]() ![]() “Girl With a Pearl Earring” was adapted into a movie that starred Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. With her second novel, called “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (written in the year 1998), she started writing full-time, and has since juggled it with being a mother. ![]() ![]() The whole year she was working on her MA, made her write the entire time and take all of it seriously. She graduated in the year 1994 from the MA course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. However, she got sick of fixing other peoples’ sentences and wanted to start fixing her own. She learned how to make her sentences better and how to research. In the year 1984, she moved to England, and worked for many years as a reference book editor. In her twenties, she wrote short stories and during her MA year, she began writing her first novel. She talked about becoming a writer when she was a kid, but putting real pen to paper was minimal. ![]() She loved authors such as: Joan Aiken, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and Madeleine L’Engle. She was the youngest of three kids, and her dad was a photographer for The Washington Post.Īs a kid, she read a lot. Tracy Chevalier was born Octoand grew up in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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