Donna Tartt

Lindsay Sullivan (Cardiff University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 23 Dec 1964
Activity 1992-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Donna Tartt's first novel, The Secret History (1992), was a publishing phenomenon; it sold over five million copies and has been translated into over twenty languages. During the next decade, Tartt published several short stories, “Tam O'Shanter” (The New Yorker, April 1993), “A Christmas Pageant” (Harper's, December 1993), and “A Garter Snake” (GQ, May 1995), the memoirs, “Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine” (Harper's, July 1992), “Basketball Season”, and “Team spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team” (Harper's, April 1994), and a number of essays for Oxford American. Her long-awaited second novel,…

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Citation: Sullivan, Lindsay. "Donna Tartt". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 April 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5220, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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