No small part of the appeal of Chevalier's excellent debut, Girl with a Pearl Earring, was its plausibility; readers could readily accept the idea that Vermeer's famous painting might indeed have been ...

“We werent livin with the land, but alive despite it,” observes reluctant pioneer Sadie Goodenough early in Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical novel, “At the Edge of the Orchard.” “Cause it wanted to ...

The author's latest book, At the Edge of the Orchard, follows a pioneer family growing apple trees in Ohio. Chevalier says she got the idea after... 'I Ate A Lot Of Apples': Tracy Chevalier On Writing ...

In her new novel, “The Glassmaker,” Tracy Chevalier follows the fates of a family of Murano glassblowers from the Renaissance until now as the island faces plague, invasion and, eventually, ...

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves... Tracy Chevalier Says 'A Single Thread' Can Make ...

Think of the din if the dead had voices, so many lives calling out to be recognized, so many tantalizing premises and exotic outcomes. But what usually remains are a few facts and bones -- an old ...

William Shakespeare’s “Othello” is the story of a black man — that would be Othello — who arrives in Venice, marries a white woman and then is manipulated into believing that she’s cheating on him.

Tracy Chevalier is drawn to the beauty of historical places, so it’s no surprise that the author of the best-selling 1999 novel “Girl With a Pearl Earring” has made Winchester Cathedral the setting of ...

In times of grave discomfort, Tracy Chevalier offers a welcome respite in her gentle new book of stitchery and manners, “A Single Thread” (Viking, 318 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars). Chevalier, author ...

There are two prevailing reasons that Tracy Chevalier’s new novel “At the Edge of the Orchard” should pique the interest of West Coast readers. The first is that among the author’s previous works is ...

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Writer Tracy Chevalier spins fiction from history. Her best-selling novel Girl with a Pearl Earring was set in the 17 th-century studio of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer; 2010's Remarkable Creatures ...