Girl with a Pearl Earring

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius … even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. Chevalier brings the real artist Vermeer and a fictional muse to life in a jewel of a novel. (Time magazine) A vibrant, sumptuous novel…triumphant…a beautifully written tale that mirrors the elegance of the painting that inspired it. (The Wall Street Journal) The richest, most rewarding novel I have read this year. (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) Outstanding. (USA Today) Marvelously evocative. (The New York Times) Superb…vividly captures the world of 17th-century Delft. (San Francisco Chronicle) Tracy Chevalier has so vividly imagined the life of the painter and his subject that you say to yourself: This is the way it must have been. (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) A jewel of a novel. (The Miami Herald) Author Bio: Tracy Chevalier holds a graduate degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, The Virgin Blue, was chosen by UK bookseller WH Smith for its 1997 Fresh Talent promotion.