
Donna Tartt
"The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty."
Donna Tartt is a novelist, essayist and critic. Her first novel, The Secret History, was a bestseller and has been published in twenty-three languages. The Little Friend won the WH Smith Literary Award, in the UK, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Tartt's long-awaited third novel, titled The Goldfinch, was published in 2013.