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SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); Biography Author Interview More by Susan Vreeland Susan Vreeland Susan Vreeland wrote The Forest Lover , a novel interpreting a portion of Carr's life, over a period of seventeen years, during which she also wrote the New York Times bestsellers Girl in Hyacinth Blue , an international classic about a fictional Vermeer painting, and The Passion of Artemisia , about the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to make her living solely by her brush and whom Vreeland sees as Carr's feminist predecessor. These were followed by an art-related story collection, Life Studies . She is now working on a novel about Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Luncheon of the Boating Party . Vreeland lives in San Diego, California. Why did you choose Vermeer as the artist? Does his work mean something special to you? Does the girl in the painting carry a special import for you, both in terms of the novel you have written and personally? When I was nine, my great-grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper. How many girls throughout history would have longed to be taught that, but had to do washing and mending instead? Magdalena, the girl in my imaginary painting, is drinking in the view outside the window instead of doing her sewing. What does she see? Undoubtedly, things she wants to paint. That longing for skill enough to render for others how one sees the world parallels my own yearning to write well.

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Enter your search terms Submit search form By Title By Author By Genre Most Requested ... Read a Review The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland List Price: Pages: Format: Hardcover ISBN: Publisher: Viking Press Susan Vreeland follows her two bestselling novels with a lavish historical tale about a pioneering woman artist In her latest novel, Susan Vreeland brings to life this fiercely independent and underappreciated figure. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to prewar Paris, where her art was exhibited in the famed Salon d'Automne, Carr's story is as arresting as it is vibrant. Vreeland tells it with gusto and suspense, giving vivid portraits of Carr and the unconventional people to whom she was inevitably drawn: Sophie, a native basket maker; Harold, the son of missionaries, who embraces indigenous cultures; Fanny, a New Zealand artist who spends a summer with Carr painting in the French countryside; and Claude, a French fur trader who steals her heart. The result is a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction. top of the page Had you ever heard of Emily Carr before reading The Forest Lover? Why do you think an artist who has been considered Canada's national treasure is so little known south of the U.S.-Canadian border? Are you now inspired to know more about her and her work?

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You'll find it at Alibris! Log in here. Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books! YOUR CART items ACCOUNT WISHLIST HELP search all sellers in Books Movies DVD VHS Music - Pop/Jazz Pop/Jazz CD Pop/Jazz Vinyl Music - Classical Classical CD Classical Vinyl by title / ISBN by song title by author by composer by subject your shopping cart order status wish list book fetch ... help Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win FREE books. your e-mail address see this month's winners NEW BOOKS OF NOTE COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS BARGAIN BOOKS ... RARE BOOKS BOOKS by Susan Vreeland Your search: Books Author: Vreeland, Susan (17 matching titles) Narrow your results by: Hardcover Softcover Audiobook Signed ... Eligible for FREE shipping Narrow results by title Narrow results by author Narrow results by subject Narrow results by keyword Narrow results by publisher or refine further Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms. Page of 1 sort by Top-Selling Price New Price Title Author Passion of Artemisia more books like this by Susan Vreeland The life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the celebrated woman painter of the Renaissance, and the first woman to be elected to the Accademia dell'Arte.

44. Review | The Forest Lover By Susan Vreeland Clearly, susan vreeland is a skillful novelist. More relatively early in her writing career, vreeland has discovered her oeuvre. http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/forestlover.html

The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland Published by Viking 331 pages, 2004 Buy it online Appreciative Appropriation Reviewed by Linda L. Richards Historical novelists have a lot of decisions to make. Not just about what story to tell or even how to tell it, but about which slices of a life need to be illuminated to provide readers with the fullest, richest impact. Skillful novelists know just how to make those slices: the decisions they make are good ones. Less skillful novelists, not so much. It's only one of the things that sets the two groups apart. Clearly, Susan Vreeland is a skillful novelist. More: relatively early in her writing career, Vreeland has discovered her oeuvre. The author of Girl In Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemsia knows her way around the art world. She understands the difference between looking and seeing, knows the subtleties of burnt umber and sienna. And, most important of all, Vreeland truly gets the off-kilter way that artists view the world. Artists aren't like other people. Vreeland embraces this. And, in a very positive way, exploits it. Vreeland's special view is as apparent in her most recent novel

45. Book Review: Girl In Hyacinth Blue - By Susan Vreeland To say that susan vreeland is just inspired by art wouldn t be right. It s true, but she also inspires the reader through language, vividly creating the art http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/17/222105.php

BC Home Features Fresh Comments RSS ... Become a BC Writer Blogcritics is an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe. Publisher: Eric Olsen Book Review: Girl in Hyacinth Blue - by Susan Vreeland Written by Dana Huff Published October 17, 2004 See also: Oh, Anne... Book Review: XAML in a Nutshell by Lori A. MacVittie ... by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill To say that Susan Vreeland is just inspired by art wouldn't be right. It's true, but she also inspires the reader through language, vividly creating the art and bringing new meaning to the old cliché that a picture paints a thousand words. Girl in Hyacinth Blue Girl in Hyacinth Blue is a work of art, lovingly rendered, painstakingly researched, and a delight to read. If you appreciate art, I think you will really enjoy this book. Amazon recommends this book often with Tracy Chevalier . Both writers seem enamored of the backstories behind art. Chevalier tackled this theme in two books I've read: The Lady and the Unicorn and Girl with a Pearl Earring (the subject of which is also Vermeer

46. An Interview With Usan Vreeland Interview with with susan vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue susan vreeland Though not an art historian, I m more familiar with painting than http://www.essentialvermeer.com/interviews_newsletter/susan_vreeland_interview.h

home vermeer catalogue bookshops contribute ... glossary Interview with with Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Girl in Hyacinth Blue painted by Jonathan Janson for the TV adaption of the Girl in Hyacinth Blue (produced by Hallmark) Girl in Hyacinth Blue traces the painting, a figment of the author's imagination, through a series of eight interconnected short stories. Readers time travel through these stories from today back to the moment Vermeer created the painting of a girl lost in contemplation, her hands idle in her lap, her sewing forgotten. While demonstrating "six degrees of separation," Vreeland connects other topics. Her depiction of the women in each story emphasizes their limited freedom and lack of control over their lives and the lives of their children. Vreeland also incorporates the horrors of the Holocaust from several perspectives, most notably the victim and victimizer and swirls it around the main character of her book the painting. She demonstrates how one person's evil changes forever the dynamics of those he loves. The Essential Vermeer has the great pleasure of publishing an exclusive interview with Susan Vreeland, author of

47. Artemisia Gentileschi News - The New York Times - Narrowed By 'VREELAND, SUSAN' Your search for vreeland, susan in Artemisia Gentileschi returned 2 articles THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA By susan vreeland. Viking, $24.95. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/artemisia_gentilesc

48. Book Haven: Girl In Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland Author susan vreeland Country America Year 1999 Rating C Pages 242 pgs. First sentence Cornelius Engelbrecht invented himself. http://nyssaneala.blogspot.com/2007/09/title-girl-in-hyacinth-blue-author.html

Book Haven "Words are the voice of the heart." - Confucius. This place is for me, and you, to revel in the art of the written word. So pull up that hot pot of tea, coffee, or mulled cider, a comfy chair, a good book, and maybe a cat or two and join my bibliophilia! Friday, September 28, 2007 Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland Title: Girl in Hyacinth Blue Author Susan Vreeland Country: America Year: Rating: C- Pages: 242 pgs. First sentence: Cornelius Engelbrecht invented himself. I don't enjoy writing reviews about books that I don't like. After all, I'm just one opinion, and by no means an expert. Why slander a book? But, if I only ever posted reviews of books I enjoy, would that be helpful? I was very disappointed in Girl in Hyacinth Blue. The story is set up as a series of vignettes (many of them were first printed as short stories as it states in the Acknowledgments). As I started reading I wondered how she could publish so many of the individual chapters on their own, while still creating a cohesive novel. My question was answered, as I discovered the novel was not very cohesive at all. The plot is an interesting one. The first chapter presents us with a modern day owner of a painting he claims to be a Vermeer formerly unknown to the art world. Each chapter traces the ownership of the painting

49. Out Of Obscurity / Susan Vreeland Paints A Portrait Of The Renaissance's Major F Out of obscurity susan vreeland paints a portrait of the Renaissance s major female artist. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/13/RV1

50. "The Passion Of Artemisia" By Susan Vreeland - Salon.com Jan 24, 2002 susan vreeland s The Passion of Artemisia, loosely based on the life of Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, thinks it s a http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/01/24/vreeland/index.html

Search: Salon The Web Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 Books Comics Community Life ... Log in "The Passion of Artemisia" by Susan Vreeland In this novel about a real-life female Renaissance painter, a thin veneer of feminism covers a juicy heart of blushing, throbbing melodrama. By Stephanie Zacharek Pages 1 Share Digg it Del.icio.us My Yahoo ... RSS Font: S S+ S++ Have a look at this passage in which Artemisia, frustrated by the lack of sexual attention shown to her by her gruff, philandering husband, confronts him with memories of a rare, recent exploit, in which the two climbed a tall belltower the better to gaze down upon the dome of the Florence Cathedral (after which they rushed home in the rain to make mad, passionate love that would shiver the timbers of the Sistine Chapel): "Nothing? Was it nothing that made you get drenched in a storm? Nothing that made you climb halfway to Heaven on a whim of mine? Nothing when you covered my throat with kisses, pressed your hardness against me next to God's own dome?" Madre di Dio! Never has reading about the experiences of a real-life woman artist made things so hot under the old wimple. (Let's not even talk about the part where Artemisia, lonely and sexually frustrated, slips into bed and teases her nipples with a paintbrush that once belonged to Michelangelo.) In real life, Artemisia (1593-1653), the daughter of venerated painter Orazio Gentileschi, was the first woman artist elected to the Accademia dell' Arte. Vreeland's retelling of Artemisia's life story includes purity sullied (Artemisia is raped at 18 by her painting teacher, and her father uses her misfortune for his own gain), love scorned (Artemisia tries in vain to win the heart of her own husband) and a sequence in which Galileo Galilei flirts with her at a party. (Later, he invites her to come with him and have a look at Venus a much better line than, "Say, would you like to come up and see my Klimt?") An independent and passionate painter, Artemisia also serves as a role model for single working moms everywhere: She supports herself and her daughter with commissions from Italian nobility and clerics.

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Site Map Main Page/Fiction Page 2/Fiction Nonfiction ... UK Fiction Search this Site powered by FreeFind Search other book review web sites 2008 Calendars ReviewsOfBooks.com Your one stop for finding multiple professional reviews of recently released books. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland The Forest Lover is Susan Vreeland's fictionalized account of the life of Canadian artist Emily Carr. She painted at a time where her native British Columbia was being industrialized and the Canadian government was actively trying to eradicate Indian cultures. Rebelling against the Victorian restrictions of the time, Emily Carr spent much of time in the forest trying to capture a way of life that was quickly disappearing. Her paintings paved the way for other modern women artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. The Forest Lover has received mostly positive reviews with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel saying, "Writing with insight and authority, Vreeland summons Carr from beyond the grave. The intimate connection between writer and subject deepens as the novel progresses, yet Vreeland's authorial tone is as quiet as an individual in a museum." [read excerpt] Christian Science Monitor review by Ron Charles Seattle Times review by Irene Wanner San Francisco Chronicle review by Kate Washington ... The Forest Lover Susan Vreeland Paperback [click book cover for amazon.com page for

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Home Info Contact English ... More Authors and Books Also on SwissEduc English Literature, General Literature on Radio/TV Short Audio Biographies SwissEduc Talk ... Discussion Topics The Passion of Artemisia, 2002 - Information about the Book Author Interview with Susan Vreeland Author Genesis of the novel Review by Stephanie Zacharek Author About the book: " It is not a biography; it is a novel... It is not even a fictionalized biography ". WBUR, February 14, 2002 (Real 0:26) Hosted by Metanet

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LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY by Susan Vreeland @import "images/bookends-with-palette-62.css"; /* */ Barbara Braun Associates, Inc. Home Titles Authors Available ... Contact us! Susan Vreeland Click here to visit Susan Vreeland's website LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY Viking/ Penguin, May 2007, hardcover; Spring 2008, paperback. Translation rights controlled by publisher. Film rights controlled by BBA. Everyone knows this iconic Impressionist picture: a group of dashing young men in jerseys and boaters, and women in frilly dresses lounging in the dappled shade of a riverside restaurant near Paris on a Sunday afternoon. All the people in the picture were real Parisians of Renoir’s time—artists, journalists, actresses, friends—but what, apart from the artist’s urging, brought them all there that immortalized day? In the latest of her fictional excursions into the world of great art and its creators, Vreeland examines the mixture of relationships and motives that brought everyone together and in the process offers an unforgettable portrait of a cherished time and place. Rights to Italy (Neri Pozza), Germany (Heyne Verlag), Holland (Bzztoh) Israel (Kineret) and Portugal (Emergencia).

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Index Welcome About Us Contact Us ... Previous Issue The International Writers Magazine : Book Review "Life Studies" By Susan Vreeland ISBN: 0-670-03177-1 Publisher: Viking - Jan 2005 A Gemma Williams Review D elicately, and skilfully crafted, Susan Vreeland’s collection of seventeen stories in "Life Studies" explores the effect and meaning art can have on humanity. This is not a dry exploration of "art" meaning exquisite paintings that only a few specialists can truly appreciate, but "art" meaning the beauty that surrounds us, and its profound, and often surprising effect on us ‘mere mortals’! The enchanting "Mimi with a Watering Can" shows a disillusioned man reawaken his enthusiasm for life when he sees Renoir’s captivating depiction of his daughter, while in "A Flower for Ginette" Monet's gardener watches in horror as he burns his water lily paintings, and steals a single picture for his wife before understanding Monet’s quest for perfection and destroying it also. In "Of These Stones" a young boy is caught throwing stones at Cezanne because he thinks him insane, his punishment is to build up a wall in the artist’s garden, which he comes to look forward to, and he learns the joy of expression and the gift empathy.

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SUSAN VREELAND I didn't grow up longing to be a writer. In fact, the urge, strong as it is, is relatively recent. After graduating from San Diego State University, I taught high school English in the San Diego City Schools since 1969, adding ceramics in 1986, retiring in 2000 after a 30-year career. Concurrent with teaching, I began writing features for newspapers and magazines in 1980, taking up subjects in art, travel, education, and skiing, and publishing 250 articles. My short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Confrontation, Alaska Quarterly Review, Calyx, Crescent Review and other journals. Home SCHEDULE WORKSHOP FACULTY ... Positions Available

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Winner of the 64th Annual Peabody Award for Radio Programming! HOT TOPIC "Is Religion Dangerous?" Public Radio International Wisconsin Public Radio from Wisconsin Public Radio WAYS OF SEEING Program 06-04-09-A Listen! Susan Krieger knew she was losing her sight, but she still didn't want to admit she was going blind. The one day she stepped off a curb and a car hit her. After that, she took lessons walking with a white cane, and learned how to hear buildings as she passed them. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll hear how Susan Krieger lost her sight but found her vision. We'll also talk about different ways of seeing. John Updike describes how he looks at a painting. And we'll hear how some 19th century photos changed our understanding of time. SEGMENT 1 Susan Krieger is the author of "Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision." She tells Jim Fleming how much she can actually see and what sight and vision have come to mean to her. And we hear selection from her book read by Catherine Brand . You can find alternate versions of her book at http://susankrieger.stanford.edu/versions.html

60. Susan Vreeland, Best Selling Historical Novels, Ability To Read susan vreeland writer of Best Selling Historical Novel Luncheon of the Boating Party says that Ability to Read is important for any good writer. http://www.marketingcrossing.com/article/index.php?id=220103

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