![]() ![]() There’s a passage early on in The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt’s massively entertaining, darkly funny new book, that goes a long way toward explaining why its author is finally securing her place alongside the greatest American novelists of the past half-century, including John Updike, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and that other latter-day Dickensian, John Irving. The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014. Her books also have some qualities of thrillers and suspense novels with intricate plots and interesting characters. The petite, very private Tartt is a native of Mississippi, and though her first novel was set at a northern college, she has been considered a Southern Gothic writer, however her latest book is set in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam. She also lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for a time, and went back and forth between the cities.ĭuring this period, she attended an art school in New York City for a short time, but did not have much skill as a painter and gave up this pursuit.ĭonna Tartt has published three novels-1992’s The Secret History, 2002’s The Little Friend and 2013’s The Goldfinch, she is considered an important, influential novelist. 1981 and graduated from Bennington College in VT in 1986.Īfter Tartt graduated from Bennington College in 1986, she moved to New York City, living in Greenwich Village. ![]() She attended University of Mississippi, c. Donna Tartt was born in 1963, in Greenwood, MS to Don and Taylor Tartt. ![]()
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