Donna Tartt

...Welden case. Legends of Glastenbury Mountain are echoed in "The Whisperer in Darkness" by H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). The novelist Donna Tartt, a Bennington student in 1982-86, began writing her first novel, The Secret History, during her...

In this article: Bennington College, Shirley Jackson, Bennington, Vermont, and North Bennington, Vermont

...the Mississippi pantheon of Faulkner, Welty and Wright or the more recent lineup of Lewis Nordan, Beverly Lowry, Barry Hannah and Donna Tartt. Kincaid, who received her MFA from the University of Alabama and has written several novels and...

In this article: James Ellroy, Louis Auchincloss, Toni Morrison, Mississippi, Harry Potter, American Tabloid, and Edith Wharton

..."The Once and Future King" and C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, "The Magicians" is a thoroughly adult entertainment, owing something to both Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" and Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City." That's not to imply that...

In this article: John Constantine, Ian Rankin, Richard Kadrey, Time Magazine, Derivative, Inspector Rebus, and Narnia

...were validated in 2003 when she won Britain's Orange Prize for her novel "Property," beating out Zadie Smith, Carol Shields and Donna Tartt for the award. Her recently published ninth novel, "The Confessions of Edward Day," takes place in...

In this article: Valerie Martin, Orange Prize, United States, Property, Britain, Zadie Smith, and Reuters

...really leave out Rowling or C.S. Lewis, but the other main presences are Evelyn Waugh, particularly Brideshead Revisted, and Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Waugh takes young characters out of their sort of adolescent idyll and projects...

In this article: Narnia, The Secret History, Evelyn Waugh, J.K. Rowling, God, Aslan, Yale, and Harvard

...to have that extra care lavished upon them. Coming to bookshelves soon will be fine editions of books by Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, George Orwell and Michael Ondaatje. Covetable, certainly, and beautifully produced, but considering...

In this article: Penguin, Faber & Faber, Endangered species, Stanley Donwood, Ted Hughes, Celia Birtwell, Persephone Books, and Random House

...in paperback by Ebury Press, priced AGBP7.99. Available now. This page-turning literary mystery is perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Alice Sebold. When a murder investigation is reopened years later, Ellie is shocked by the truth behind...

In this article: Edinburgh Evening News, Alice Sebold, and Phoenix

...reading it and thinking things about it. " Authors adopt different techniques to navigate themselves through the crisis of SNS. Donna Tartt's The Secret History was the most popular literary novel of the early 1990s. Working on her...

In this article: Audrey Niffenegger, Mark Haddon, Ralph Ellison, The Time Traveler's Wife, Playboy, The Secret History, Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, and Invisible Man

...and workers," he said. With their air of remove, water towers can spark the imagination. In "The Little Friend," a novel by Donna Tartt set in a fictional Mississippi town, the climactic scene plays out at the water tower. "I think that...

In this article: Hernando, Mississippi, World War II, and Memphis

The tale of a band of rogue archaeologists digging in Greece makes for a gripping literary thriller Ever since Donna Tartt made it big with The Secret History, publishers and readers have been searching for the next big clever...

In this article: Laconia, Sparta, Fascism, Spartan, Trinity College Dublin, and The Secret History