Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

a.
johannes vermeer, a seventeenth-century dutch artist, painted the portrait "girl with a pearl earring."

b.
aaron copeland composed the music for the 1938 ballet "billy the kid."

c.
the 1988 book "a brief history of time" is probably the best-known work by the physicist stephen hawking.

d.
many children adore the book the cat in the hat, written by theodor seuss geisel in 1957.