Donna Tartt

In the literary field, Donna Tartt follows the John Gardner principle of writing as if there is eternity ahead. The winner of the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize is not chasing the number of books, although I have heard more than once that with its popularity it would be quite reasonable. For a writer, it is much more important to enjoy the process, and not to release works like on a conveyor belt, and it is better to become the author of one masterpiece than “a dozen of mediocrities”.

Donna, the eldest of two daughters Taylor and Don Tartt, was born in December 1963 in Greenwood. Mother worked as a secretary, father - at a gas station, then became involved in politics. The writer spent her childhood in the neighboring town of Grenada, surrounded by aunts and uncles. Donna was almost not friends with her peers, as she grew up sickly and rarely went to school, studying at home.

At the age of 4, the girl began to enter a diary, by the age of 5, the first poems appeared, and at 13 Donna published the sonnet in the "Literary Magazine", published in Mississippi. As a teenager, Tartt worked part-time in the local library and read voraciously, especially Charles Dickens and Thomas de Quincey. Then the girl became a student at the University of Mississippi, where her writing talents were noticed by professors.

Donna studied at the university for only a year and moved to Bennington private college, where she studied classical philology, enriched her knowledge of Greek and English literature.

There she became friends with future famous writers and screenwriters Bret Easton Ellis and Jill Eisenstadt. After graduating from college, Tartt moved to New York, began attending art school, but soon realized that she had no talent for drawing, and gave up this occupation.

Ellis introduced Donna to his agent Amanda Urban, whose collaboration will last for over 25 years. Thanks to the business acumen of a representative of the International Creative Management agency, the previously unknown writer sold the rights to her debut novel incredibly profitably: $ 450,000 for the release of a hardcover book, $ 510,000 for a paperback and $ 500,000 for a publication abroad ...

Donna Tartt has only 3 novels, 4 short stories, several documentary essays and audiobooks on her account, despite the fact that she really began to create in the mid-80s. In 1991, an 850-page essay entitled "The Secret History" was published. The novel, on which the writer spent 10 years, immediately became a bestseller. The first 5 million copies were sold in a matter of days. The book has been translated into 24 languages.

A few years later, the three-time Oscar nominee, director of the drama To Kill a Mockingbird, Alan Pakula, took up the adaptation of the work. Work on the film dragged on, in 1998 the director died tragically without realizing the idea.

The book traces elements of the "university novel" genre widespread in American prose. This is understandable, since Tartt wrote the first lines, being herself a representative of the younger generation of college students. That is why campuses, details of the educational process of the main character, who studies the era of Antiquity, are so carefully, competently registered.

There is also a detective line in the novel, when a murder occurs in the middle of the narrative. But the highlight of the whole story is that the reader is aware from the very beginning that a crime has been committed, and plunges into tense scenes of reflections, throwing of heroes between the duty of friendship and conscience.

In Little Friend, Donna explores the history of the American South in the mid-20th century. In the center of the plot is a girl trying to solve the murder of her brother, which happened many years ago. After the death of their son, the parents part, the heroine Harriet is brought up by relatives. All her life she is obsessed with the idea of ​​revenge on an unknown murderer, to whose search she attracts a childhood friend. The idea does not lead to anything good.

According to the reviewers, Tartt turned out to be an action game with incredible plot twists, vivid characters, complex personality of the main character and accurately conveyed the atmosphere of a small town of the 60s. After publication, the writer said that she had enough finished material for 5 more books.

The Goldfinch was published in 2013. The novel uses a well-tried technique - a tragedy that happened in the past. We are talking about the teenager Theodore, who, together with his mother, got into the epicenter of a terrorist attack in the Metropolitan Museum.

Fulfilling the request of a dying visitor to save the 17th century canvas, the boy takes out, and, in fact, steals a work of art. After 14 years, Theo is trying to figure out if there is a connection between the companion of the deceased old man, whom he saw on that tragic day in the museum, and the painting.

The publishing house, anticipating the release of the book, described it as the story of the relationship between a young man who survived the death of his mother, tormented by a sense of guilt, and the power that draws him into the real world of crime and corruption.

One of the rules of life of Tartt says that loners are engaged in writing books. Perhaps that is why she does not have children and a husband, or another fact of her biography played a role - the hard endured divorce of her parents. And the fate of a housewife, as Donna said in an interview with Esquire, is the worst nightmare she can imagine.

Fortunately, the bestselling author has so far managed to avoid the gay rumors that tend to circulate around women who avoid close contact with men.

When Donna is asked if she plans to start a family at all, the writer replies in French "Je ne vais jamais me marier", which means "I will never get married." According to a number of American sites, in his youth, Tartt had an affair with Bret Ellis, but none of them made official confessions.

Now Donna's company at a ranch in Virginia is a dog named Luther. And in friendship, combined with adventure, she said, there are more topics for works than in romantic feelings.

Photos of a slender brunette (Donna's height - 173 cm, weight - 58 kg), who prefers to look strict and elegant, occasionally appear on the pages of publications and on the Internet. The Guardian in 2013 included Tartt in the top ten most stylish people on the planet. The writer herself does not favor the social network, she does not maintain verified pages on Instagram and Facebook.

Back in 2014, the rights to film The Goldfinch were acquired by RatPac Entertainment and Warner Bros. However, there was no news about the beginning of filming for a long time. Amazon joined Warner Brothers in 2017. The company agreed to fund a third of the film's $ 40 million budget on the condition that it promotes the movie on streaming services, and Warner Bros., respectively, rent in theaters.

The production part was entrusted to the author of the melodrama "Brooklyn", winner of the British Film Academy's John Crowley. Another BAFTA laureate Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, known for Boys Don't Cry and American Horror Story, undertook to produce the film.

And only in 2018 it became known that the filming of the dramatic film had finally begun. There were also difficulties with the custom. Negotiations were underway with Julianne Moore, Rafe Fiennes and Liam Neeson. As a result, the roles were distributed between Ansel Elgort, Sarah Paulson, Nicole Kidman, Amy Lawrence.

The author of the novel, on the basis of which the film is being shot, was paid $ 3 million. Donna's agent Amanda Urban made a stunning deal by literary standards. To the surprise of her colleagues, after that the writer terminated the contract with her. Tartt's discontent stemmed from the fact that she did not get the opportunity to write a script or become a producer of the picture. The adaptation of the work was done by Peter Straugan, screenwriter of the series Wolf Hall, based on the novels by Hilary Mantel.

Donna is now represented by Nicole Aragi, who is promoting the work of Juno Diaz and Jonathan Safran Foer.

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The novel "Little Friend" was awarded the WH Smith prize for the press, books and stationery. More than 200 years ago, the company introduced the concept of a chain of stores into the economy. Donna bought an expensive Land Rover with her book royalties, but she never learned to drive. The author's favorite scent is the smell of hot asphalt.

Tartt loves vintage clothing and doesn't shy away from buying wardrobe items at the flea market. The Goldfinch is inspired by the 2001 destruction of giant Buddha statues by the Taliban in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. The work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A Mysterious Story is nominated for the Orange Fiction Prize for Property, one of the most prestigious awards in the English-speaking world for a literary work written by a woman.

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