Donna Tartt, novelist
The literary world has long been dubbed a man’s world but that has never intimidated Donna Tartt. The novelist has released three books, each with more pizzazz than the latter.
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First, there was 1992’s The Secret History, a bookabout a pack of murderous classics scholars at a private college in New England. Then in 2002 The Little Friend, a story set in the South that debuted. And finally The Goldfinch, a 771-page bildungsroman, hit bookstores in 2013, winning her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014. This Pulitzer Prize symbolized a victory for female writers. Since 1948, 60 Pulitzer Prizes in fiction have been awarded with only 18 awarded to women fiction writers. The Goldfinch joins a long list of literary classics including The Age of Innocence and Gone with the Wind. Since the release of The Goldfinch, the Mississippi-born author has returned to a more reclusive life. She is notorious for granting few interviews and rarely discussing her private life. Wherever she goes, whatever she does, we only hope that Tartt is developing more exquisitely drawn characters and settings.
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