Started writing short stories in my 20s, then began first novel, The Virgin Blue, during the MA year. Talked a lot about becoming a writer as a kid, but actual pen to paper contact was minimal. Eventually I wanted to fix my own sentences rather than others’, so I quit and did the MA.
(Yup, still nerdy.) Learned how to research and how to make sentences better. Even have dual citizenship – though I keep the American accent intact.ġ English husband + 1 English son + 1 tortoiseshell cat.īefore writing, was a reference book editor, working on encyclopedias about writers. I’m still in London, and still not entirely serious.
I had studied for a semester in London and thought it was a great place, so came over for fun, expecting to go back to the US after 6 months to get serious. Moved to London after graduating from Oberlin in 1984. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, dancers? That year forced me to write all the time and take it seriously. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. No one was surprised that I went there I was made for such a progressive, liberal place. Montgomery.īA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander.
Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post. Unfortunately Ella is shallow and annoying. Ella Turner comes from America to France with her husband and discovers a powerful connection to her Huguenot ancestor that leads her to a farmhouse in Switzerland.
“Passionate and compelling.19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. In Tracy Chevalier's first novel she shows more skill in creating a premise than in creating believable characters. “Those who admired Chevalier's atmospheric evocation of 17th-century Delft will find much to enjoy in her vivid reconstruction of late 18th-century London.” GUARDIAN “Burning Bright is an ambitious, impressively-researched novel…You can almost smell the smoke and mildewed clothes, see the gaunt, pock-marked faces of people struggling to survive and sense Jem's wonder as he gazes across the murky Thames to a perplexing world.” DAILY EXPRESS “A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London.” SUNDAY TIMES Jem and Maggie's passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration… Together they encounter the neighbour they've been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. ‘Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?'ġ792.
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