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Donna Tartt (born 23 December 1963) is an
American novelist.
Daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but
raised in Grenada, Mississippi. She started attending the University of
Mississippi in 1981, before transferring to Bennington College in 1982.
There she met writer Brett Easton Ellis who was also a student there. She
graduated from Bennington in 1986.
Tartt began writing her first novel The Secret History during her second
year at Bennington. It was Ellis who recommended her work to the well-known
literary agent Amanda Urban, thus paving the way for the novel's success.
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It was published in 1992 to great demand, even overwhelming a 75,000 book
order for the first printing and becoming a bestseller.
The Secret History is set at a fictional college that closely resembles
Tartt's alma mater. The plot concerns a close-knit group of students and
their professor of classics, who embark upon a secretive plan to stage a
bacchanal. The first-person narrative is flavored heavily by the differences
within the group. These include: social class, privilege, intellect and
sexual preference. In a tone of quiet melancholy, the narrator reflects on a
variety of circumstances that lead ultimately to a murder within the group.
The fact of the murder, as well as the location and perpetrators are
revealed at the start of the novel, usurping the formal structure of a
classic murder mystery.
The Little Friend, Tartt's second novel, was published in October, 2002. It
is, at least superficially, a mystery/adventure, told from the point of view
of a young girl living in the American South in the mid-20th Century; her
implicit anxieties about the long-unexplained death of her brother and the
dynamics of her extended family are a strong focus of the novel, as are
portrayals of the life-styles and customs of a contrasting set of characters.
Tartt is now reported to be working on a re-imagining of the myth of
Daedalus and Icarus as part of the Myths series by Scottish publisher
Canongate. Other contributors to the series include Margaret Atwood and A.S.
Byatt.
Profile:
1992: The Secret History
2002: The Little Friend |
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