![]() ![]() Donna Tartt moved to a plantation in Virginia. In our modern day literary climate, where promotion is everything - where authors are practically press-ganged into doing book tours, talk show appearances, social media posts - Tartt’s ironclad secrecy has made her the object of much frenzied mythmaking over the years: Donna Tartt bought an island in Tahiti. Tartt went so far as to issue legal threats against the podcast’s creator. A recent podcast, Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College, sought to explore Tartt’s formative years at the notorious liberal arts college, and was somewhat stymied by her point-blank refusal to participate. Tartt grants precious few interviews, and her private life is an impenetrable fortress. Every 10 years, it seems, she emerges from the darkness with another extraordinary novel, and then - just as abruptly - vanishes into the ether again. WHERE IS DONNA TARTT? It’s the question asked every time the famously reclusive author releases one of her books. ![]()
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