Susan Joyce Vreeland was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. The Forest Lover is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
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The forest lover
2004
ISBN 9780143034308
The Passion of Artemisia
2001
ISBN 9781565115262
Life Studies
2005
ISBN 9780786554324