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Sleepytown
A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine
1993
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The ever-mysterious Donna Tartt tells us a little about her childhood in this non-fiction essay for Harper's Magazine, therefore giving us a glimpse into what created her enigma. Published during the media-blitz that surrounded The Secret History, in this essay Tartt reveals intimate details about herself in a way that she would later avoid.
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt
Author · 11 books
Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. 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.
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