Donna Tartt Biography

Donna Tartt is an American writer and author of the novels The Secret History The Little Friend and The Goldfinch. Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and in 2014 her novel The Goldfinch was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Tartt was born in Greenwood Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta and raised in the nearby town of Grenada.
At the University of Mississippi her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. Following a recommendation from Morris Barry Hannah then an Ole Miss Writer-in-Residence admitted 18-year-old Tartt into his graduate short story course. She was deeply literary says Hannah. Just a rare genius really. A literary star.
Following the suggestion of Morris and others she transferred to Bennington College in 1982 where she was friends with fellow students Bret Easton Ellis Jill Eisenstadt and Jonathan Lethem and studying classics with Claude Fredericks.
Tartt began writing her first novel originally titled The God of Illusions later published as The Secret History during her second year at Bennington. After Ellis recommended her work to literary agent Amanda Urban The Secret History was published in 1992 and sold out its original print-run of 75000 copies becoming a bestseller. It has been translated into 24 languages.

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