Her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. Enrolling in the University of Mississippi in 1981, she pledged to the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. At age five, she wrote her first poem, and she first saw publication in a Mississippi literary review at age 13. The daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but raised 32 miles away in Grenada, Mississippi. Her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend. Donna Tartt is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her first two novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.
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