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- Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, who lives with her husband, three children, a grandson, and a cat. She is best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth. Chasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category. In addition, she was awarded the Agatha Award in 2004 in the category Best Children's or Young Adult. A sequel, The Wright 3, was released in April, 2006, and a third, The Calder Game, was published two years later, in April 2008. The Danger Box was published in August 2010. Her next book, was published in 2013. Soon after, in 2015, Balliett published Pieces and Players. Out of the Wild Night was published in 2018. Balliett has also published two oral histories involving Nantucket ghost stories in the 1980s, which have been consolidated into one book, "Nantucket Ghosts" released by Down East Books in 2006. Before releasing Chasing Vermeer, she taught third grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. During her tenure, she coordinated with NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John M. Grunsfeld (S.M., '84, Ph.D., '88) to send her pupils' literature and creative artwork into space during a routine Hubble Space Telescope mission on the Columbia space shuttle. (en)
- Blue Balliett née en 1955 à New-York (pseudonyme d’Elizabeth Balliett Klein) est une femme de lettres américaine. (fr)
- Blue Balliett, pseudonimo di Elizabeth Balliett Klein (New York, 1955), è una scrittrice statunitense. (it)
- Elizabeth "Blue" Balliett Klein (Nova Iorque, 1955) é uma escritora estadunidense. Os seus livros são destinados ao público infantil, sendo que sua obra mais famosa é . Frequentemente visitava o Museu Metropolitano de Arte, o Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque e o Museu Guggenheim. Estudou História da Arte na Universidade Brown. Ela e sua família viveram em até se transferirem para Chicago. Deu aulas na Universidade de Chicago antes de se tornar escritora em tempo integral. Seu primeiro e mais famoso livro foi Procurando Vermeer, que se tornou um best-seller infanto-juvenil em 2004. Balliett levou cinco anos para escrever o livro. Atualmente o seu enredo está em processo de filmagem. A sequência de Procurando Vermeer é , outro livro de suspense, com os mesmos personagens centrais. (pt)
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- Blue Balliett née en 1955 à New-York (pseudonyme d’Elizabeth Balliett Klein) est une femme de lettres américaine. (fr)
- Blue Balliett, pseudonimo di Elizabeth Balliett Klein (New York, 1955), è una scrittrice statunitense. (it)
- Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, who lives with her husband, three children, a grandson, and a cat. She is best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth. (en)
- Elizabeth "Blue" Balliett Klein (Nova Iorque, 1955) é uma escritora estadunidense. Os seus livros são destinados ao público infantil, sendo que sua obra mais famosa é . Frequentemente visitava o Museu Metropolitano de Arte, o Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque e o Museu Guggenheim. Estudou História da Arte na Universidade Brown. (pt)
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