Tracy Chevalier discusses her novel, “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” She begins by talking about how she loved the artist Johannes Vermeer, and had always wondered what he said to make the models in his paintings pose the way that they did. Chevalier talks about how there is very little existing biographical information about Vermeer, but she used what she could to give him a personality and tried to see how he would have lived. Martinson asks Chevalier to read a passage from her book about how Vermeer and his servant discuss painting from nature. Chevalier ends the interview by talking about a Vermeer theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and how she studied art to prepare for writing this book.