In writing Chasing Vermeer, I wanted to explore the ways kids perceive connections between supposedly unrelated events and situations, connections that grown-ups often miss. We asked many questions, visited many museums in the city, and set off a number of alarms - by mistake, of course. One year my class and I decided to figure out what art was about. I began teaching 3rd grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When our kids started school, we moved to Chicago. My husband and I met and were married on Nantucket, lived there year-round for another 10 years, and had our two children there. I surprised myself by writing two books of ghost stories, stories collected by interviewing people. The Met has five Vermeer paintings and the Frick three, so Vermeer and I have been friends for many years.Īfter studying art history in college, I moved to Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts, in order to write. By the time I was a teenager, I sometimes stopped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Museum after school, just to wander and look and think. I was born in New York City and grew up playing in Central Park, getting my share of scraped knees, and riding many public buses and subways.
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