The Secret History

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

Donna Tartt, born in 1963, is an American novelist, writer, and critic. She is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) for The Goldfinch. The author won the 2003 WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. Tartt joined the University of Mississippi in 1981, but transferred to Bennington College one year later, from where she graduated in 1986. The author’s literary works follow themes such as social stratification, guilt, and aesthetic beauty. Tartt now lives in New York City.