Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier is an American-British novelist born in Washington, DC. She earned a BA in English from Oberlin College and later completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia after moving to London in the mid-1980s; she also worked for several years in publishing as a reference book editor before becoming a full-time writer.

She is the author of 11 novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Single Thread, Remarkable Creatures, and New Boy: William Shakespeare’s Othello Retold, which is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. Her novels have been widely translated, and Girl with a Pearl Earring became an internationally bestselling book adapted into a film, play, and opera.