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Prince Edward Writer Wins Literature’s Highest Honor

   Written by on May 1, 2014 at 3:34 pm

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced on April 14, 2014, that the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction had been awarded to Donna Tartt for her third novel, The Goldfinch. Ms. Tartt is a resident of Prince Edward County. Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, literature and musical composition in the United

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt

States each year. The prizes were established in 1917 in the will of publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The awards are administered by Columbia University. The Goldfinch is the story of thirteen-year-old Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He takes a small painting, The Goldfinch (by Fabritius), from the rubble of the museum. This captivating painting draws Theo into the dangerous, criminal underworld as an adult.

Ms. Tartt’s first book, The Secret History, was released in 1992.

According to the New York Times, it was a multi-million seller and was translated into more than 20 languages. Her second book, The Little Friend, released in 2002, was also a large seller. On March 16 of this year, before the Pulitzer Prize announcement, The GoldFinch was Number 2 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Hardcover Fiction, after 19 weeks on the Top 15 Best Seller list. The Goldfinch was published by Little, Brown and Company on October 22, 2013.

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