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Speaking of Stories transforming
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| Next Performance | SUSAN VREELAND Susan Vreeland is recognized internationally for historical fiction on art themes. Her newest novel,
Luncheon of the Boating Party (New York Times Bestseller, 2007), reveals Renoir's masterpiece and the personalities involved in its making who reflect the vibrancy of late nineteenth century Paris. Her story collection,
Life Studies (LA Times Bestseller, 2005) reveals Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, and shows ordinary people having profound encounters with art.
The Forest Lover (2004) follows the rebel Canadian painter, Emily Carr, into the British Columbia wilderness.
The Passion of Artemisia (NY Times Bestseller, 2002) illuminates the Italian Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first women to make her living solely by her brush.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Book Sense Book of the Year Finalist; and NY Times Bestseller,1999) traces an alleged Vermeer painting through the centuries. Vreeland's novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and her short fiction has appeared in
Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Confrontation, Dominion Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Manoa, and others. She is a three-time winner of the Theodore Geisel Award, the highest honor of the San Diego Book Awards. She was a high school teacher in San Diego for thirty years. |