The book was adapted for the movie The Goldfinch. Her 2013 novel The Goldfinch stirred reviewers as to whether it was a literary novel, a controversy possibly based on its best-selling status. In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006. In 2002, Tartt's novel The Little Friend was first published in Dutch, since her books sold more per capita in the Netherlands than elsewhere. Vanity Fair called Tartt a precocious literary genius, as she was just 29 years old. Amanda Urban was her agent and the novel became a critical and financial success. The book was derived from her time at Bennington College. Tartt published her first novel, The Secret History in 1992.
Tartt's novels are The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). At Bennington, Tartt studied classics with Claude Fredericks, and also met Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Jill Eisenstadt. In 1982, following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College. Finding her in the Holiday Inn bar one evening, Morris said to her, "My name is Willie Morris, and I think you're a genius." įollowing a recommendation from Morris, Barry Hannah, then an Ole Miss writer-in-residence, admitted the eighteen-year-old Tartt into his graduate course on the short story. In 1981, Tartt enrolled in the University of Mississippi where her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. In high school, Tartt was a freshman cheerleader for the basketball team and worked in the public library. In 1976, aged thirteen, Tartt was published for the first time when a sonnet was included in The Mississippi Review. In 1968, aged five, Tartt wrote her first poem. I'm sort of this horrible repository of doggerel verse. I also know all these things that I was made to learn. I know a ton of poetry by heart, When I was a little kid, first thing I memorized were really long poems by A. Her parents were avid readers, and her mother would read while driving. Her father, Don Tartt, was a rockabilly musician, turned freeway "service station owner-cum-local politician", while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. Her work has been widely critically-acclaimed, and her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been adapted into a film. Donna Tartt's three novels in German, published by Goldmann.ĭonna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist.
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