Novelist Susan Vreeland at the NYS Writers Institute in 2006

Описание: Bestselling novelist Susan Vreeland takes her inspiration from the worlds of Renaissance and modern art. Her book Life Studies (2005), a Los Angeles Times bestseller, features stories based on incidents in the lives of notable Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters. A teacher of high school English for thirty years, Vreeland became a writer relatively late in life. A passion for the portraits of Jan Vermeer, combined with long days free from teaching during an extended illness, resulted in the New York Times bestseller, Girl in Hyacinth Blue (1999), the story of a fictional painting by the Dutch master. Publishers Weekly listed Girl in Hyacinth Blue as one of the 25 best novels of 1999. Vreeland's other bestselling books include The Forest Lover (2004), based on the life of pioneering modernist painter Emily Carr, and The Passion of Artemisia (2002), based on the life of female Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi.