Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier won me over completely with Girl with a Pearl Earring, a novel that conjures an entire human drama out of a single painting. A Washington-born American-British writer educated at Oberlin, she has earned a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary doctorate, yet what stays with me is her restraint. Even after Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth carried the 2003 film adaptation, I still prefer the original's hushed tension. Chevalier writes through glances and silences rather than declarations, and her willingness to imagine the unrecorded lives hidden inside artworks earns my lasting respect.

Name (English)

Tracy Chevalier

Name (Japanese)

トレイシー・シュヴァリエ

Reading

とれいしー・しゅゔぁりえ

Born

October 19, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / screenwriter / literary editor

High school

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

University

Oberlin College

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 2013 honorary doctorate

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://tchevalier.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Tracy_Chevalier
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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