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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: 4.01 · 1,600,524 ratings · 147,739 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
The Goldfinch
3.94 avg rating — 888,506 ratings — published 2013 — 61 editions
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The Secret History
4.18 avg rating — 640,518 ratings — published 1992 — 251 editions
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The Little Friend
3.47 avg rating — 66,131 ratings — published 2002 — 127 editions
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A Christmas Pageant
3.83 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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The Secret History & The Li...
4.04 avg rating — 376 ratings — 3 editions
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The Ambush
3.81 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2006
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3.99 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Eine Strumpfbandnatter
3.90 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Tam-O'-Shanter
3.78 avg rating — 101 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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“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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