American · b. 1963
Donna Tartt publishes a novel roughly once per decade and makes each one count. "The Goldfinch" won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, following a boy who survives a museum bombing and steals a Dutch masterpiece. The American author's first novel "The Secret History"—about classics students who commit murder—became a cult classic. Tartt writes long, immersive novels that reward patience with narrative pleasures increasingly rare in contemporary fiction.