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Chevalier, Tracy (1962)

Tracy Chevalier, b. 1962. Tracy Chevalier, b. 1962.

Tracy Chevalier is an American author of historical fiction. She was born in Washington D.C., USA. In 1983 she moved to England. Chevalier has a degree in English from Oberlin College (1984). She now lives in London. Chevalier is most famous for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999).

Her seventh novel, The Last Runaway (2013), is set in Ohio (USA) in the 1850's. The main character is Honor Bright, an English Quaker, who expresses herself through quilt making.

Source: CHEVALIER, Tracy (2013). The Last Runaway, New York: Harper.

Digital source illustration (retrieved 18th June 2016).

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