Tracy Chevalier is an award-winning American-British novelist of 11 books, including the immensely popular Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a film, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. 

Tracy has also edited anthologies such as Why Willows Weep, a collection of tales from the woods to raise money for the Woodland Trust, and Reader, I Married Him, a collection of short stories commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë.

In addition to her writing, Tracy has been actively involved with various organisations including the Royal Literary Fund, Patron of the Dorchester Literary Festival and the Woodland Trust.

Tracy’s latest novel, The Glassmaker, follows a family of Venetian glassmakers from the Renaissance to present day.

Tracy’s book choices are:
**Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
** Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
** Restoration by Rose Tremain
** Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
** Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder was illustrated by Garth Williams.

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