All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.
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Donna Tartt
American novelist and writer
United States · b. 1963
Arts and letters
About
Donna Tartt, 49, was raised in Mississippi. She was a creative writing student at Bennington College, Vermont, where she began work on her first novel, The Secret History. Published in 1992, it has sold more than 5m copies worldwide and been translated into more than 20 languages. The Little Friend, her second novel, came out a decade later and was shortlisted for the Orange prize for fiction. Her third novel, The Goldfinch, has just been published.
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I was very disappointed when I realised I was never going to be an Olympic gymnast, but that was a long time ago.
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