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	Donna Tartt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donna Tartt (born 23 December 1963) is an American novelist.
		Daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but raised in Grenada, Mississippi.
		Tartt has also helped launch the careers of unknown writers and projects both fiction and non-fiction, including a notorious biography of actor Anthony Perkins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Tartt (446 words)

	DONNA TARTT
		Tartt is able to make "reading time" slow down, so that you feel you are experiencing the events she describes in real time, or even more slowly than real time.
		Tartt's portrait of the Cleve family possesses all the detail and luminosity of an old platinum photograph: she chronicles their emotional history, their mortgaged dreams and their intramural squabbles with consummate ease while showing us how familial traits and inclinations are handed down generation to generation, mother to daughter, aunt to niece.
		Tartt offers very few clues as to the identity of Robin’s murderer, but the most vivid of these comes from the family maid, who remembers chasing poor white boys away from the house just before Robin’s body is discovered.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /donna_tartt.html (14935 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Donna Tartt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tartt is represented by the literary agent Amanda (Binky) Urban, and her editor is Gary Fisketjon at Knopf.
		Donna Louise Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1963, the eldest daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt (nee Boushé).
		Tartt has written eloquently about the relationship between her faith and her writing in “The spirit and writing in a secular world”.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5220 (429 words)

	Donna Tartt - On Childhood
		Tartt, who veers between a politely dogged reticence and sudden outbursts of candor when discussing her childhood, bridles when I raise the subject of A Southern Gothic Childhood.
		Tartt's mother, by contrast, was described to me by someone who's met her as "a Blanche DuBois figure who said things like 'the south is a defeated nation'." Tartt says about her: "She's funny as hell and I talk to her on the phone every day.
		Tartt got her own start in sleepy Grenada, Mississippi, where her adored mother worked as an executive with the State Employment Commission, and her father was a local politician.
	www.neitherday.com /tartt/childhood.php (1801 words)

	DONNA TARTT
		Born in 1963, Donna Tartt is the daughter of a local politician, descended from archetypal Southern stock (her mother's family name is Boushé).
		Tartt, who peppers casual conversation with references to authors and books she reveres, says, "This book is really about other books that I loved in childhood." That childhood was spent mostly in Grenada, a town on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta.
		Tartt is formidably well read, startlingly erudite; in the course of our conversation she quotes from Thomas Aquinas, Oscar Wilde, St Augustin and Henry James - not to mention the blues singer Mississippi John Hurt - all the while achieving the commendable feat of not appearing to be a show-off at all.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /081202.html (14272 words)

	"The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt - Salon
		Tartt juxtaposes the two families -- the smoldering, aggrieved Ratliffs and Harriet with her posse of eccentric aunties -- to often very funny effect, although the humor here is stinging, not fond.
		Tartt builds this, the coming-of-age element of "The Little Friend," with meticulous care, as she does the more adventurous aspects of the story, and it's in trying to do full justice to both that she slows the novel down.
		Tartt's plotting, as always, is exceptionally intricate and graceful, with several scenes of acute suspense toward the book's end.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/11/11/tartt/index.html (1293 words)

	Donna Tartt - Bennington
		There doesn't have to be a murder in real life for the novel to say something about the author; novels are not just feats of technicality, like mending a car, they are works of art, which come from the mind and soul and energy of their authors.
		But friends noticed the changes in Tartt - who was a wonderful storyteller, but famously closemouthed when it came to her own life - and wondered whether the novel was somehow a key.
		Even though Tartt's preternaturally graceful writing style seems to have been with her almost from the beginning, there were times when the structural challenges - not to mention the demands on her energy - of constructing such a huge novel almost defeated her.
	www.neitherday.com /tartt/bennington.php (962 words)

	The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
		At its best, her writing fuses seamlessly with its subject: heated when the events are heated, languorous when the moment slows, precise when she ferrets out the next turn of the plot.
		"(A)lthough Donna Tartt’s capacity is never in doubt, her encompassing overview does the plot no favours, allowing in diversions and digressions which she deals with authoritatively but which may reveal a determination to succeed on her own terms, however much these prove frustrating to the reader.
		Harriet's family is a weak but prominent presence in the book: the slightly unhinged sister, the lost mother, the absent father (living far away with his mistress), the aunts and grandmother.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/tarttd.htm (2599 words)

	Donna Tartt interview, Vanity Fair 9/92
		Donna Tartt seems, in many ways, a figure from another decade: a small, hard-drinking, southern writer, a Catholic convert, witheringly smart, with an occluded past, sadness among the magnolias.
		In early 1989, Tartt's Bennington classmate and friend Bret Easton Ellis introduced her and her project (it was three-quarters done; she had an outline of the rest) to his agent, ICM honcho Amanda Urban.
		Urban accepted Tartt as an unsigned client; two years later, with the completed (866-page) manuscript in hand, Urban was able to whip up a bidding frenzy among several publishing houses.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/8543/dvf.htm (1112 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| The secret history of Donna Tartt's new novel
		Tartt's first book, published 10 years ago when she was 28, was a literary sensation.
		Tartt's American agent, the influential Amanda 'Binky' Urban, has arranged for early publication of The Little Friend in the mainly multilingual Netherlands so that sales there are not immediately undermined by English-language imports.
		Although Tartt, who started eight years of work on The Secret History while she was still a student at Bennington College in Vermont, has been romantically linked in the past to the writers Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Shakespeare, in public she has only ever expressed affection for her dog.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,764643,00.html (1040 words)

	MWP: Donna Tartt (1963- )
		She was born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, the elder of two daughters born to Don and Taylor Tartt, but she grew up in Grenada, Mississippi, on the eastern edge of the Delta.
		At the urging of Morris and others, Tartt transferred after her freshman year from Ole Miss to Bennington College, a small liberal arts college in Vermont, where she made friends with novelists Bret Easton Ellis and Jill Eisenstadt.
		Tartt began showing her novel soon after she began writing it to Ellis, one of the two people to whom the novel is dedicated.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/tartt_donna (1003 words)

	Donna Tartt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Donna Tartt (born 1963) is an American[For more info, click on this link] novelist.
		The secret history is donna tartts first novel....
		The little friend is donna tartts second novel....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/donna_tartt.htm (501 words)

	The Little Friend by Donna Tartt : Booksamillion.com (0679439382, Bargain - Hardcover)
		Donna Tartt knows people have been talking about her.
		Tartt, the elder of two daughters, portrays childhood so well because it's still all too vivid to her.
		Childhood, as Tartt remembers it, and as she paints it in The Little Friend, is short of idyllic.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/bargains?id=3140966895831&isbn=0679439382 (1234 words)

	The Little Friend - Donna Tartt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Despite the peripatetic frenzy, which grates at times, there is precision in Tartt’s watchful prose, as she describes the loneliness of childhood.
		Tartt is at her best in the prologue which narrates the event.
		The delicate domino-like fall towards tragedy, in a family united by the terror of the unsaid, is beautifully caught in Tartt's bold mastery of suspense.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books2/LittleFriend.htm (538 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Interview: Donna Tartt
		So the fact that Ida, Harriet's maid (fl, as was Tartt's own), is the person Harriet loves most but who is treated appallingly by her white employers, is "not so much to do with race as the horror of the child who's really attached to the nanny, and then the nanny's taken away".
		This is the sort of response Tartt gives often; she manages to be personally evasive by giving you an interesting, if convoluted, answer - but not really to your question.
		Codeine is a derivative of opium, and as a result of taking it, the young Donna spent "nearly two years of my childhood submerged in a pretty powerfully altered state of consciousness".
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,814881,00.html (4266 words)

	Donna Tartt Shrine \| News
		With The Little Friend finally complete, Tartt is now reported to be working on a version of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, due to be published by Canongate as part of a series that will feature updated fables by Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and JM Coetzee.
		The best-selling Donna Tartt novel The Secret History continues its circuitous path towards the silver screen.
		Shine helmer Scott Hicks had expressed some interest in the pic, which tells the chilly tale of five students who are caught in the thrall of a brilliant classics professor, only to accidentally commit a murder while carying out an ancient Greek ritual.
	www.purpleglitter.com /donna_tartt/news.html (521 words)

	BBC - Radio4 - Today/Donna Tartt
		Compiling one of those inevitable end-of-millennium lists of favourite authors and books, someone mentioned Donna Tartt's - The Secret History - only to met with a chorus of "What on earth's happened to her".
		Back in 1992 when Donna Tartt was top of the book best-sellers lists, the British group Stereo MC's were in the pop charts.
		And coincidentally Donna Tartt is preparing her comeback too.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/archive/arts/tartt.shtml (626 words)

	Donna Tartt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Donna Tartt's first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992 after a flurry of publicity over the sizable advance she received -- nearly a million dollars, including foreign and paperback rights.
		The tale of college students entwined in murder, the novel was hailed by some as great literature and criticized by others as pretentious; it became a bestseller and an international success.
		Tartt, a native of Mississippi, began the novel in the 1980s, when she was still a student at Bennington College in Vermont.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/donnatartt.html (186 words)

	Donna Tartt, Mississippi writer and author of The Little Friend and The Secret History
		Born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, Donna is the elder of two daughters born to Don and Taylor Tartt (Padgett, 1).
		Tartt is said to have cultivated an early love for literature; and by the young age of five, Tartt had written her first poem (Kaplan, 1).
		Tartt gave the reader a sense of who each person is and how much it would take for them to commit murder.
	shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Tartt.html (1177 words)

	Amazon.com: The Little Friend: Books: Donna Tartt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her knowledge of Southern ethos-the importance of family, of heritage, of race and class-is central to the plot, as is her take on Southerners' ability to construct a repertoire, veering toward mythology, of tales of the past.
		The double standard of justice in a racially segregated community is subtly reinforced, and while Tartt's portrait of the maid, Ida Rhew, evokes a stereotype, Tartt adds the dimension of bitter pride to Ida's character.
		Tartt's Alexandria is as stifling as an August afternoon during a heatwave.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679439382?v=glance (1872 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Donna Tartt
		Thus Donna Tartt explains the decade of silence since her debut novel, The Secret History, made her the international literary sensation of 1992.
		A believer in the power of medicine, he fed his granddaughter codeine cough syrup, and much of her childhood was a "languorous undersea existence".
		Her army of fans may be champing at the bit for more of her work, but Donna Tartt remains a defiantly bookish character, "moving a comma round very happily for hours".
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/profile/donna-tartt.shtml (460 words)

	the unofficial donna tartt / secret history site
		Donna Tartt is currently on tour in the Netherlands and during the tour her Dutch publisher confirmed that "The Secret History" will be made into a movie by Gwyneth Paltrow.
		Donna Tartt, popster en beste vriendin and Tot op de zesde verdieping voor de keizerin van de hype
		Donna Tartt's new novel - with the provisional title "Tribulation" is scheduled for publication early next year.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/8543/dmain.htm (1616 words)

	Powell's Books - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
		Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement — both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
		Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.
		Donna Tartt is a novelist, essayist, and critic.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1400031702-0 (515 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Little Friend: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ten years in the writing, it can hardly be said that The Little Friend, Donna Tartt's second novel and the follow-up to her phenomenally successful and assured debut The Secret History, was rushed out.
		Donna Tart should go back to the shadows for another ten years but this time let someone talented proof read her new work before she let's the publishing world hype it.
		Tartt seams to have confused her genre; either write a "character development" novel, or a "mystery/suspense" novel, but don't try to do both in one book, because you will end up with neither.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747562113 (1144 words)

	Review \| The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
		She's the kind of character Tartt clearly loves to build: dimensional, highly detailed, with a clear voice all her own.
		Tartt's ability to draw Harriet and all the other characters is there in full.
		There's no question that Donna Tartt is one hell of a great writer.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/littlefriend.html (1198 words)

	Donna Tartt Discussion
		Of course Donna Tartt is a beautiful and moving writer.
		Tartt was brilliant in her subtle inclusions suggesting a genetic familial connection.
		The ending Tartt has given is a natural consequence of Harriet as the main character.
	www.gnooks.com /discussion/donna+tartt.html (1802 words)

	Donna Tartt Shrine \| Contact
		Donna, since you are an author will you please contact me. I would like to know if you will write about my childhood, the abuse, the miracle, and everything.
		Donna, eu amei o livro "A história secreta", e fiquei muito feliz de saber que você acaba de lançar seu segundo livro "The little friend".
		one wonders how donna finds the time for what is necessary with all these ridiculous people trying to contact her concerning this and that, mostly selfish, request(s).
	www.purpleglitter.com /donna_tartt/contact.html (10729 words)

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