"[Asked if she has any favorite Mississippi or Louisiana authors to recommend) There are so many: Ernest Gaines, Natasha Trethewey, Donna Tartt, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker and Robert Olen Butler are just a few I love."
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Jesmyn Ward "By the Book", The New York Times (August 31, 2017)
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name.
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