Together they spend a number of weekends at the house of Francis' aunt, not far from Hampden. The other students, Edmund Corcoran (Bunny), Camilla and Charles Macaulay, Francis Abernathy and Henry Winter, accept Richard as their friend. The current students convince Julian to accept Richard. This course is taught by the charismatic professor Julian Morrow, who normally hand picks his students and limits them to five.

Richard Papen majors in Psychology at the University of Hampden, but decides to change to ancient Greek. The second part of the Twentieth century.

Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine The novel remained on the Publisher Weekly bestseller list for thirteen weeks, reaching as high as number two. The winner, Knopf, paid a massive $ 450.000 for the manuscript and ordered 75.000 copies in the first print (compared to 10.000 for most debuts). The manuscript for The Secret History started a bidding war between publishers. During her second year at Bennington she began writing her debut novel: The Secret History. At his and others' urging Donna transferred to Bennington College, a small liberal arts college, after her fresman year. One of her stories caught the attention of Willie Morris. In the autumn of 1981 Donna entered the University of Mississippi in Oxford. She wrote her first poem at the age of five and published her first sonnet in a Mississippi literary review at the age of thirteen.

She appears to have been a precocious child with an early love for literature. Due to her own attitude towards press interviews, of which the title of her novel is a fair description, very little is known about her youth. Donna is the elder of two daughters born to Don and Taylor Tartt. In The Secret History the main character describes a story that has occurred in the past, and should have remained a secret: the secret history.ĭonna Tartt was born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississipi, but grew up in Grenada, Mississippi.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt