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Donna Tartt


Born
in Greenwood, Mississippi, The United States
December 23, 1963

Genre
Fiction, Short Stories


Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 2,134,785 ratings · 219,766 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
The Secret History
4.15 avg rating — 1,011,157 ratings — published 1992 — 258 editions
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The Goldfinch
3.96 avg rating — 1,033,372 ratings — published 2013 — 175 editions
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The Little Friend
3.48 avg rating — 81,739 ratings — published 2002 — 140 editions
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A Christmas Pageant
3.83 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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The Ambush
3.82 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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The Little Friend / The Sec...
4.05 avg rating — 395 ratings — 2 editions
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4.03 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Eine Strumpfbandnatter
3.98 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Tam-O'-Shanter
3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
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