Tracy Chevalier
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Chevalier was born and grew up in Washington, DC. After getting a BA
in English from Oberlin College (Ohio), she moved to London, England in
1984, intending to stay 6 months. She still lives there.
She has said she wanted to be a writer because she loves books and wanted to be associated with them. She wrote sparingly in high school, but in her twenties she started writing ‘real’ stories, at night and on weekends. She once took a night class in creative writing, and a story she had written was published in a London-based magazine called Fiction. She worked as a reference book editor for several years until 1993. She then left and did a year-long MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (England). Her tutors were the English novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She said that for the first time in her life she was expected to write every day, and found she liked it. She also finally had an idea she considered ‘big’ enough to fill a novel. She began The Virgin Blue during that year, and continued it once the course was over, juggling writing with freelance editing. |
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