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Donna Tartt (born 23 December 1963) is an American novelist. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1671x2184, 390 KB) Summary Author publicity site: http://www. ...
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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
Greenwood is situated in Leflore County, Mississippi at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Area Ranked 32nd - Total 48,434 sq. ...
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Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum), from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer. ...
The front cover of The Secret History. ...
December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...
Biography
Daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but raised in Grenada, Mississippi. She started attending the University of Mississippi in 1981, where she pledged to the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma as a freshman, before transferring to Bennington College in 1982. There she met writer Bret Easton Ellis who was also a student there. She graduated from Bennington in 1986. Greenwood is situated in Leflore County, Mississippi at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Area Ranked 32nd - Total 48,434 sq. ...
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ) is a college womens fraternity, founded on October 13, 1870 at Monmouth College, Illinois. ...
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont. ...
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Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. ...
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Tartt began writing her first novel The Secret History during her second year at Bennington. It was Ellis who recommended her work to the well-known literary agent Amanda Urban, thus paving the way for the novel's success. It was published in 1992 to great demand, even overwhelming a 75,000 book order for the first printing and becoming a bestseller. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
The front cover of The Secret History. ...
Amanda (Binky) Urban is a famous literary agent. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. ...
The Secret History is set at a fictional college that closely resembles Tartt's alma mater. The plot concerns a close-knit group of students and their professor of classics, who embark upon a secretive plan to stage a bacchanal. The first-person narrative is flavored heavily by the differences within the group. These include: social class, privilege, intellect and sexual preference. In a tone of quiet melancholy, the narrator reflects on a variety of circumstances that lead ultimately to a murder within the group. The fact of the murder, as well as the location and perpetrators are revealed at the start of the novel, usurping the formal structure of a classic murder mystery. Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the mother goddess, and in Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary. ...
The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ...
Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ...
The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. ...
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Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. ...
A privilege—etymologically private law or law relating to a specific individual—is an honour, or permissive activity granted by another person or a government. ...
Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ...
The term sexual preference encompasses heterosexual and homosexual desire. ...
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Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...
The Little Friend, Tartt's second novel, was published in October, 2002. It is, at least superficially, a mystery/adventure, told from the point of view of a young girl living in the American South in the mid-20th Century; her implicit anxieties about the long-unexplained death of her brother and the dynamics of her extended family are a strong focus of the novel, as are portrayals of the life-styles and customs of a contrasting set of characters. The front cover of The Little Friend. ...
The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
Her third novel is reported to be a psychological thriller centered around a group of people stuck in an elevator.
Tartt is now reported to be working on a re-imagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as part of the Myths series by Scottish publisher Canongate. Other contributors to the series include Margaret Atwood and A. S. Byatt. Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood, CC (born November 18, 1939) is one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers. ...
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt , DBE, (born August 24, 1936, Sheffield, England) has been hailed by some as one of the great postmodern novelists in Britain. ...
Tartt has also helped launch the careers of unknown writers and projects both fiction and non-fiction, including a controversial biography of actor Anthony Perkins. Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932–September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the serial killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. ...
She is of Italian extraction, her family having shortened their longer name to Tartt.
Works
Novels 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The front cover of The Secret History. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
The front cover of The Little Friend. ...
Further reading
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