About the Author

Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

Reviews

The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled
*New York Times*

So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure
*Guardian*

A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read
*Vanity Fair*

Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller
*Stephen King*

Takes my breath away
*Ruth Rendell*

Brilliant and compulsive
*Evening Standard*

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth
*The Times*