As a teenager, Tartt had a part-time job in a local library and read avidly she was particularly fond of Charles Dickens and Thomas De Quincey. Writer Donna TarttĪt the age of four, the girl started journaling, and by the age of five, she wrote her first poems, and she published her sonnet in the Literary Journal, which came out in Mississippi when she was thirteen. Donna almost had no friends at school because she was a sickly child, and rarely went to school, receiving home education.
The childhood of the writer was spent in the nearby town of Grenada, surrounded by aunts and uncles. Her mother worked as a secretary, and her father – at a gas station, and later got engaged in politics. For the writer, it is much more important to enjoy the process, and not to produce works as on manufacture, and it is better to become the author of one masterpiece than of "a dozen mediocre works." Childhood and youthĭonna is the eldest of two daughters of Taylor and Don Tartt, born in December 1963, in Greenwood. The winner of the most prestigious Pulitzer prize does not chase the number of books, although she has heard that with her popularity it would be quite reasonable. In the literary field, Donna Tartt follows the principle of John Gardner to write as if there was an eternity ahead.
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