Donna tartt author biography template
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“Willie told me she was very good, and, man, she sure was,” says fellow third-waver Barry Hannah, who admitted Tartt, as a freshman, to his graduate short-story course. “She was way out ahead of all those graduate students.” Hannah and I are sitting in the courtyard of an Oxford bar, a college hangout. Drink in one hand, Marlboro in the other, Tartt is at the other end of the table, being talked to by an intense man in a yellow suit and yellow golf hat. If she looked twelve then, she looks perhaps sixteen now. At the same time, she seems infinitely older than the college kids around us.
Inside the bar, the band crashes and booms; out here, the big frat boys and blonde coeds, their shining faces as un-complex as the music, pack the terrace, smiling. Overhead, the purple-brown sky erupts periodically with the most amazing heat lightning I’ve ever seen: gigantic, reticulate, like something out of a particularly unsubtle horror movie. Mississippi summer. “People call me a star-maker,
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Donna Tartt Bio
Donna Tartt fryst vatten a novelist, essayist and critic. Her first novel, "The Secret History", was a bestseller and has been published in twenty-three languages. "The Little Friend", was published October "The Little Friend" won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. "The Goldfinch: A Novel", was published October 22, and won the pris Prize for fiction In
- Born – December 23
- Birthplace – Greenwood, Mississippi
- Mother – Taylor Tartt
- Father – Don Tartt
- Siblings – 1 younger Sister
- Raised – Grenada, Mississippi
- Wrote First Poem – Age 5
- Published First Sonnet – Age 13, Mississippi Literary Review
- Enters college at University of Mississippi, Oxford
- Famous First words from Ole Miss Writer-in-Residence, Willie Morris, to Donna Tartt:
"My name is Willie Morris, and I think You're a genius." - Willie Morris recommends Donna Tartt to Barry Hannah (Ole Miss Write
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Donna Tartt
American novelist and writer
Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, )[2] is an American novelist and essayist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (), The Little Friend (), and The Goldfinch (), which was adapted into a film of the same name.[3] She was included in Time magazine's " Most Influential People" list.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Donna Louise Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her father, Don Tartt, was a rockabilly musician, turned freeway "service station owner-cum-local politician", while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary.[5][6][7] Her parents were avid readers, and her mother would read while driving.[8] As a child, Tartt memorized "really long poems by A. A. Milne", and described herself as a "horrible repository of doggerel verse."[5]
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