![]() ![]() Balliett recalled, she did a little of a lot of things before producing a novel. ''I don't really associate it with the color anymore,'' she said in a voice, slow and elegant, that is paired with an easy, down-to-earth manner.Īlthough by the time she was 8 she knew that she was a writer, Ms. Balliett, a tall, thin woman with long brown hair and bright hazel eyes that tend toward blue. ''I was named after the color of the sky,'' said Ms. It just seems tailor-made for an art-mystery book that is now available in 11 languages, thank you very much. Balliett says, the name has been hers for all her 49 years and came from her mother. So surely Blue Balliett is a pen name with a delicious story, a mystery maybe? No, Ms. If that wasn't heady enough, Warner Brothers just acquired the movie rights for the book, which was published by Scholastic. ![]() Newsweek called it ''The Da Vinci Code for Tweens.'' Balliett as a new writer off to a flying start. The Times also gave it one of many similarly superlative-studded reviews (''suspenseful, exciting, charming'') and Publishers Weekly recently picked Ms. Blue Balliett's first novel, ''Chasing Vermeer,'' a mystery about two South Side sixth graders searching for a stolen painting by the Dutch artist, sprinted onto the New York Times best-seller list soon after its May debut. ![]()
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