Following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College in 1982, where she was friends with fellow students Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and Jonathan Lethem. Following a recommendation from Morris, Barry Hannah, then an Ole Miss Writer-in-Residence, admitted Tartt into his graduate short story course where, stated Hannah, she ranked higher than the graduate students. Her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. At age five, she wrote her first poem, and she first saw publication in a Mississippi literary review at age 13.Įnrolling in the University of Mississippi in 1981, she pledged to the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. The daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but raised 32 miles away in Grenada, Mississippi. Her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend. Following a recomm Donna Tartt is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her first two novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.

Enrolling in the University of Mississippi in 1981, she pledged to the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. At age five, she wrote her first poem, and she first saw publication in a Mississippi literary review at age 13.

Donna Tartt is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her first two novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.

The goldfinch novel