Author Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, became an instant classic ... classics professor Claude Fredericks in the character of charismatic Hampden classics professor Julian ...

Before reading what I would decree my new favorite book of all time, I had heard the name Donna Tartt and, of course, had heard the book title “The Secret History’’ discussed in hushed tones ...

Jenna selected Donna Tartt's debut novel ... With "The Secret History," my DNA is recognizably twined throughout all the characters — which is only to say that a gesture or a turn of phrase ...

Nobody would file the novels of Donna Tartt under “thrillers ... and disappointed some fans of her debut, “The Secret History.” Tartt’s latest, “The Goldfinch” — only her third ...

By Andy Lewis Donna Tartt Headshot ... into the art underworld.” Tartt is the reclusive novelist who shot to fame in 1992 with the blockbuster hit The Secret History, a murder mystery set ...

Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” feels like a 30-minute walk on a treadmill ... You’ll quickly realize as you read “The Secret History” that it is devoid of character. There’s plenty of personality, ...

Here is the story most people don’t know; here is the secret history of Donna Tartt ... identity as a sorority girl from small-town Mississippi and become the “Donna Tartt” character we know her as ...

The literary world was soon ablaze with anticipation: after a fierce bidding war, The Secret History sold to publishers Alfred A Knopf for a staggering $450,000, a deal brokered by Tartt’s ...