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Tracy Chevalier (born October 19, 1962 in Washington, DC) is a bestselling historical novelist. Her career began with the book The Virgin Blue but she became known with her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, a book based on the famous painting by Vermeer. Her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, sold 4 million copies worldwide, and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. The film based on the novel received three Academy Award nominations in 2004.

Her sixth novel is Remarkable Creatures, based on the life of the English 19th-century fossil collector Mary Anning. Her most recent is The Last Runaway, about an English Quaker who moves to the rural Ohio and gets involved in the Underground Railroad.