Who is the author of the novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
"Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, and Judy Parfitt. Hetreed read the novel before its publication, and"
"Tracy Chevalier Tracy Rose Chevalier, (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with ""The Washington Post"" for more than 30 years. Her mother died in 1970, when Chevalier was eight years old. Chevalier has an older sister, Kim"
"Ambassador for the Woodland Trust, where her husband serves as a member of the board of directors. Tracy Chevalier Tracy Rose Chevalier, (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Douglas and Helen (née Werner) Chevalier. Her father was a photographer who worked with ""The Washington Post"" for more than 30 years."
"Olivia Hetreed Olivia Hetreed is a British screenwriter and editor, and the current president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In 2003, she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" into the film of the same name. Hetreed has also been credited as the screenwriter for productions based on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Emily Brontë, and Caroline Lawrence. As a result, she has been called an ""expert in literary adaptations."" Olivia Hetreed studied English at university. She first worked as an editor of documentaries and films."
"she began working as an editorial assistant with Macmillan's Dictionary of Art, then later joined St. James Press, serving as a reference book editor. Her first novel, ""The Virgin Blue"", was published in the UK in 1997 and was chosen by W H Smith for their showcase of new authors. Her second novel, entitled ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", was published in 1999. The work, which was based on the famous painting by Vermeer, has been translated into 38 languages. As of 2014, it has sold over five million copies worldwide. It won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in"
"community organizations. In 2006, she began serving as the chairperson for the Management Committee for the UK's Society of Authors, serving in that capacity for two years. She served on the Advisory Board of the UK’s Public Lending Right from 2008 until 2015, while as serving as Patron of World Book Night. ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" was chosen as one of the books given away in both the US and UK for World Book Night 2013. In 2015 she became President of the Royal Literary Fund, and joined the British Library Board as a Trustee. She is also an"
"Mother of Pearl (novel) ""See Nacre for material produced by mollusks."" Mother of Pearl (1999) is a novel by Melinda Haynes, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection, June 1999. The audio version is performed by Nana Visitor. Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a 15-year-old white girl, who is the daughter of the town prostitute and an unknown father. They are both separately seeking the family, love, and affection"
"Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a ""tronie"" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an"
"focused the story on the relationship between Griet and Vermeer, deciding what other storylines were ""distracting and had to be jettisoned. Before editing, there was great stuff there, but Peter was fantastically ruthless."" Changes from the novel did not bother Chevalier, who felt that as a result the film gained ""a focused, driven plot and a sumptuous visual feast."" According to Webber, ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" is ""more than just a quaint little film about art"" but is concerned with themes of money, sex, repression, obsession, power, and the human heart. Laura M. Sager Eidt in her book, ""Writing"
"to accept it for publication. Klassen also worried about what her colleagues would think of her writing, later saying ""I didn't want to be embarrassed when I walked into work the next day"". Ultimately the comments she received were positive and the manuscript was accepted for publication. Klassen had not traveled to Home until the manuscript for her first book was accepted. She was inspired to write about wet nurses after seeing one in a small role in the film ""The Girl with a Pearl Earring"". Curious, she began research on wetnursing. Before long, she was researching other historic information"
"but also for not sufficiently interacting with longstanding Muslim communities. Asra Nomani Asra Quratulain Nomani (born 1965) is an American writer, and professor who taught journalism at Georgetown University. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, ""The Wall Street Journal"" reporter Daniel Pearl. Nomani is the author of two books: ""Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam"" and ""Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love"". Articles include: ""Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom"", the ""Islamic Bill of Rights"
"they had not had before, until their paths cross owing to their common acquaintance of loner mystic Joody Two Sun. Mother of Pearl (novel) ""See Nacre for material produced by mollusks."" Mother of Pearl (1999) is a novel by Melinda Haynes, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection, June 1999. The audio version is performed by Nana Visitor. Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a 15-year-old white girl, who is"
"The Pearl (novel) The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, first published in 1947. This story is about a poor family which is more likely described as native Americans, who discovers an enormous and valuable pearl. The novella explores man's nature as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican Folk Tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl-rich region in 1940. In 1947, it was adapted into a Mexican film named ""La perla"" and in 1987 into a cult"
"Later, she began her writing career by working on family films such as ""The Treasure Seekers"" (1996) and ""The Canterville Ghost"" (1996). In 1998, she wrote the short film ""Candy"", but found wider fame when she adapted Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" into the 2003 film of the same name. Hetreed had gained access to the novel shortly before its publication, as she and Chevalier shared the same agent. Her husband Andy Paterson convinced the author to sell the film rights, and he co-produced the film with his production company Archer Films. For her work in"
"The Medusa Frequency The Medusa Frequency is a 1987 novel by Russell Hoban. Written in a lyrical, often magic realist style, it crosses a number of genres including comedy and fantasy without fitting easily into any. Its themes include loss, fidelity, mythology, perception and creativity. Narrator Herman Orff is a London-based freelance writer of comics and an unsuccessful novelist. He is preoccupied by Vermeer's ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", an ex-girlfriend called Luise von Himmelbett, and characters from mythology including The Kraken. His own name is a reference to Hermes and Orpheus. Lacking inspiration to write his third novel, he"
"Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel ""The Good Earth"" was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ""for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"". She was the first"
"Asra Nomani Asra Quratulain Nomani (born 1965) is an American writer, and professor who taught journalism at Georgetown University. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, ""The Wall Street Journal"" reporter Daniel Pearl. Nomani is the author of two books: ""Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam"" and ""Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love"". Articles include: ""Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom"", the ""Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque"", and ""99 Precepts for Opening"
"Sebastian Faulks Sebastian Charles Faulks, (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently ""A Week in December"" (2009) and ""Paris Echo"", (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, ""Devil May Care"" (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, ""Jeeves and the Wedding Bells"" (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz ""The Write Stuff"". Faulks was"
"Peter Webber Peter Webber (born 1968) is a British director who is best known for his debut feature film ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"" and ""Hannibal Rising"". ""Girl with a Pearl Earring"", starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth, marked Webber's feature film debut. The film has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and 10 BAFTA Award nominations. Dino De Laurentiis tapped Webber to direct ""Hannibal Rising"". Based on Thomas Harris' book of the same name, and starring Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li and Rhys Ifans, this prequel depicts a young Hannibal Lecter as he gradually"
"Pearl Abraham Pearl Abraham (born 1960 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was the third of nine children in a Hasidic family. Her father was a rabbi. At age five, the family moved to New York City and two years later returned to Israel. Following several moves back and forth between New York and Israel, the family settled in New York when she was 12. She studied first in Yiddish, then in English and then again in Yiddish. She graduated from Hunter College and received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing"
"the American Private Eye Writers Association (PEWA). Diane Wei Liang Diane Wei Liang (born 1966) is an English-language writer of Chinese origin. She is the author of ""Lake With No Name"" (2003, 2009) and three novels featuring Beijing private detective Mei Wang: ""The Eye of Jade"" (2007), ""Paper Butterfly"" (2008) and ""The House of Golden Spirit"" (2011). Her books have been translated into over 20 languages. ""The Eye of Jade"" was shortlisted for The Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. She is the daughter of a Liberation Army officer and a journalist who, as a result of the Cultural"
"The White Pearl (novel) The White Pearl is a 2012 novel by Kate Furnivall set during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in the early 1940s. ""The White Pearl's"" initially takes place on a rubber plantation, later moving onto the yacht from which the novel takes its name. The novel's main character, Constance ""Connie"" Hadley, accidentally kills a Malay woman who places a curse upon Hadley and her family several minutes before passing away. The killed woman is the mother of teenage twins, Maya and Razak, and Hadley endeavours to meet with the pair after a troubling guilt affects her already"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in ; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the ""Millennium"" series. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by as three men gang raped an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth. Days later, racked with guilt for having done nothing to help her, he begged her forgiveness—which she refused"
"Trombone and Wind Symphony (2004) was inspired by ""The Pearl"". The Pearl (novel) The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, first published in 1947. This story is about a poor family which is more likely described as native Americans, who discovers an enormous and valuable pearl. The novella explores man's nature as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican Folk Tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl-rich region in 1940. In 1947, it was adapted into a Mexican"
"in the final chapters, when widowed Sarah has to deal with her unruly offspring. Costume jewelry has more sparkle than this uninspired tale."" Jewels (novel) Jewels is a 1992 historical romance novel by Danielle Steel. In the novel, 75-five-year-old Sarah, Duchess of Whitfield, looks back on her long and eventful life. It is Steel's 30th novel. The novel debuted at #1 on the ""New York Times"" Best Seller list and remained in that spot for four weeks. It was a paperback bestseller as well, reaching #5 for two weeks. ""Jewels"" was adapted by Shelley List and Jonathan Estrin into a"
"Celia Brayfield Celia Brayfield is an English author, academic and cultural commentator. Celia Brayfield is best known as a novelist. After early success with the international bestseller ""Pearls"", she focused on contemporary social comedies set in millennial London and its suburbs. In 2005 she joined the staff of Brunel University London to set up the creative writing programme there, becoming Reader in 2006 and Associate Reader in 2015. She is also a Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University and a member of the Higher Education Committee of the National Association of Writers in Education. During her first career as a"
"newest novel, The Pearls, on November 27, 2007. Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden files, has named her as his primary mentor. Deborah Chester Deborah Chester (born 1957) is an American author of over 35 books, primarily science fiction and fantasy novels. She currently holds the John Crain Presidential Professorship at the University of Oklahoma, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on writing style and structure in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Chester began her career penning romance novels but eventually moved into a variety of genres including adult fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. She has written"
"Coleman Finlay. The Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy The Gold Seer Trilogy Rae Carson Rae Carson (born 1973) is an American fantasy writer. Her debut novel, ""The Girl of Fire and Thorns"", was published in 2011. It was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Award and the Andre Norton Award, and it was the winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Young Adult Literature. It was also selected as 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults by Young Adult Library Services Association. The series was a New York Times bestseller. Her books have also been translated"
"children. In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, Honeydew, was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's 'top 19 books to read right now'. Source: Edith Pearlman Edith Pearlman (born June 26, 1936) is an American short story writer. Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from Radcliffe College (which later merged with Harvard University). She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts. Her non-fiction has appeared in ""The Atlantic Monthly"", ""Smithsonian Magazine"", ""Preservation"", and ""Ploughshares"". Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest,"
"Lisbeth Salander Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. She is the lead character in Larsson's award-winning ""Millennium"" series, along with the journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Salander first appeared in the 2005 novel ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" (original Swedish title, ""Män som hatar kvinnor"", literally ""Men who hate women"" in English). She reappeared in its sequels: ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" (2006), ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" (2007), ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" (2015), and ""The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye"" (2017). In the only"
"Pearl Schiff Pearl Schiff (May 12, 1916 – July 28, 2005) was an American author from Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known for her first novel, ""Scollay Square"", which made ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in 1952. The novel, about an upper-class woman's affair with a sailor in Boston's red-light district, was considered scandalous at the time. Schiff was born to immigrant parents, grew up in Boston, and worked her way through college at Radcliffe, graduating in 1937. The Russian poet Itzik Feffer was her cousin. She married Dr. Louis Schiff, a podiatrist, and lived for some time"
"writing topics. Chain Pearl Cleage Pearl Cleage (born December 7, 1948) is an African American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel ""What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day"" was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African American woman. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and is the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre. Pearl Cleage was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Doris Cleage (""née"" Graham), a teacher, and the late civil rights activist"
"earring with bamboo earrings as a commentary on the lack of black figures in museums and galleries. His piece is titled ""Girl with a Bamboo Earring"". English street artist Banksy reproduced the painting as a mural in Bristol, incorporating an alarm box in place of the pearl earring and calling the artwork ""Girl with a Pierced Eardrum"". Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a ""tronie"" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection"