![]() "I had never heard of her," Chevalier tells Mary Louise Kelly. At its center is a pioneering 19th century fossil hunter named Mary Anning, whom Chevalier first encountered one day while visiting a small museum about dinosaurs. ![]() That book, her most famous, tells the story of a Dutch teenager who became a maid in the Vermeer household - and the subject, as Chevalier imagined it, of one of his most famous works, Girl with a Pearl Earring.Ĭhevalier's newest novel is called Remarkable Creatures. She has written books set in medieval France, 18th century London and 17th century Holland - specifically, in the home of painter Johannes Vermeer. Novelist Tracy Chevalier has made a career of bringing history to life. ![]()
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