Chevalier, Tracy: The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier has been visiting Venice regularly since her honeymoon there thirty years ago. She is the author of eleven novels, including A Single Thread, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and been made into a film, a play and an opera. Born in Washington DC, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1986. She and her husband divide their time between London and Dorset.