Donna Tartt is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on December 23, 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States. She was introduced to She met Bret Easton Ellis in college; the two were romantically involved for a time. in college. The two were romantically linked for a while.
She enrolled in the University of Mississippi in 1981, where her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was still a freshman. Following 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. “She was deeply literary,” said Hannah. “Just a rare genius, really. A literary star.”
Following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College in 1982. At Bennington she studied classics with Claude Fredericks.
She was born and raised at Grenada, Mississippi.
She published her first poem in the Mississippi literary journal at the age of thirteen.
Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American writer, the author of the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014. She was included in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list, compiled in 2014.
