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 of ...
About six years ago, Alissa Bennett, a director at the Gladstone Gallery, fell under the thrall of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel, The Secret History. The book traces a coterie of students studying ancient ...
Remember when you first read this? It’s still that good. Beguiled by their charismatic professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college bond and conspire — discovering ...
Donna Tartt is an American novelist and essayist especially noted for her debut novel, The Secret History (1992), and her third book, The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Donna Tartt labored for almost a decade on “The Secret History,” which finally came out to much fanfare in the fall of 1992. Tartt had begun the book as a student at Bennington College in Vermont–but ...