Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States on December 23rd, 1963 and is the Novelist. At the age of 60, Donna Tartt biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Tartt published her first novel, The Secret History in 1992. The book was derived from her time at Bennington College. Amanda Urban was her agent and the novel became a marketing, critical, and financial achievement. Vanity Fair called Tartt a precocious literary genius, as she was just 29 years old.
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.
In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006.
Her 2013 novel The Goldfinch stirred reviewers as to whether it was a literary novel, a controversy possibly based on its best-selling status. The book was adapted for the movie The Goldfinch. Tartt was reportedly paid $3m for the movie rights but parted company with her long-standing agent, Amanda Urban, over the latter's failure to secure Tartt a role in the screenplay writing or wider production. The movie was a critical and commercial failure.
Tartt is a convert to Catholicism and contributed an essay, "The spirit and writing in a secular world", to The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture (2000). In her essay Tartt wrote that "faith is vital in the process of making my work and in the reasons I am driven to make it." However, Tartt also warned of the danger of writers who impose their beliefs or convictions on their novels. She wrote that writers should "shy from asserting those convictions directly in their work."
She has spent about ten years writing each of her novels.
- 2003 WH Smith Literary Award – The Little Friend
- 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist – The Little Friend
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) shortlist – The Goldfinch
- 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist – The Goldfinch
- 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – The Goldfinch
- 2014 Time 100 Most Influential People
- 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction – The Goldfinch
- Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List, 2014