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Donna Tartt is an author who began her work period in 1992. Born in 1963, she has produced a body of work that includes *The Goldfinch*, *The Secret History*, and *The Little Friend*. Her writings are often associated with 1990s fiction, classics, mystery, and murder themes.
Tartt has been recognized within the Pulitzer Prize collection. Her bibliography includes titles such as *Der kleine Freund* and *Steglitsan*. She is referenced by 334 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1963
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Der kleine Freund
- Steglitsan
- The Goldfinch
- The Secret History
- The Secret History and the Little Friend
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 519
- Total plays
- 12,627
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Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American writer and author of the novels The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002). She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Donna+Tartt">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,608x
- Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology<SUBTITLE>A Proposal for Reporting</SUBTITLE>
· 2000 · cited 18,063x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,753x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,095x
- Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
· 1988 · cited 11,796x
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Quotes
- “I’m a bit of a lone wolf…I don’t give interviews or do publicity unless I have a book out—too distracting. My desk is where the real work happens.”
- “As a writer, I think I’m more an eye than an ear — the world comes mainly in for me at the eye. So I’m glad the visuals came through for you. As I’m writing my books, I really do see them almost literally — I experience scenes almost as an onlooker, watching from the outside.”
- “Something I think you’re very conscious of growing up in the South is people who speak correctly and people who don’t…George Orwell said, ‘Englishmen are all branded on the tongue.’ It’s the same for southerners. I grew up around people who had wonderful, mellifluous voices; there’s also that twangy cracker accent. And then you were also aware of black English…”
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Encyclopedic overview
Tartt's three novels in German, published by Goldmann. Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
Early life and education
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