The story of the writer for the exam in English Tracy Chevalier is the author of the most famous novel about the most mysterious oil painting. Tracy was born in Washington. 19 Oct 1962, she was in the beginning of a way to writing best-selling book. It's her birthday. Her parents were hands-off and didn’t have plans for her. Her dad was a photographer for The Washington Post for 30 years; her mother died when she was seven. Whenever she saw her dad as an adult, he’d say: “I don’t want to hear the details, but are you happy?” She would say: “Yes,” and he’d move on to talk about something else. After her first novel, The Virgin Blue, came out, he said: “It’s a good little book, not a great one, but a good one.” She thought: “Ouch.” But he really liked "Girl with a Pearl Earring" so she thinks he was quietly proud of her. Tracy once said. Tracy tells than when she was young, she just assumed that she would become a writer. She loved reading and went to the library every week, from the age of 6 to 15. She was the librarian’s pet. But as a teenager she suffered a loss of confidence. She wrote stories, but she would never show them to anyone. After graduating she came to London for six months, met her future husband and stayed. For several years she worked as a reference book editor, while writing short stories in her spare time. Afterwards she juggled freelance editing with writing until eventually she was able to write full-time. She had first story, “Ginger”, published while she was taking a writing class at City Lit. It was about one of the mummies at the British Museum. She sent it to a magazine called Fiction. And she says it was surprise to her, they took it right away. They even said they were going to pay her £100, but they went bankrupt before she saw any money. All the novels of a British writer from America written on a historical theme. Tracy is passionate about art (She is interested in art). Most of all she likes portraits, but the age is not so important. In particular, she loves the Dutch painting of the XVII century-it tells all about the everyday details of everyday life. She loves the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt. Every Tracy novel is a story about a picture. In it converge historical facts and fantasy writer. And that's what she says about it.So there was the bestseller "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Tracy tells the story of the creation.