Bibliography

Read non-fiction articles and essays by Donna Tartt

• The Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years of Contemporary Southern Writing, Hill Street Press, June 2002, ISBN: 1588180816
  
• The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture: Eight Novelists write about their Craft and their Context, Edited by Paul S. Fiddes, University of Wales Press, January 2002, ISBN: 0708315984
  
• The Glory of J.F. Powers, Harper's Magazine, July 2001
  
• Portfolio: William Eggleston, Artforum, October 2001
  
• Remembering Willie, by Kay Holloway (Photographer), Univ Pr of Mississippi, Paperback, 120 pages, May 2000, ISBN: 1578062675
  
• "Introduction", A World of Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington: Ten Centuries of Art, by Martha Richler, Scala Books, March 1, 1998, ISBN:1857591763
  
• "Introduction", The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson, Raven Books, London, June 1996, ISBN: 1854874373
  
• "Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team", Harper's Magazine 288, April 1994, 37-40
  
• "Basketball Season", The Best American Sports Writing 1993, edited & introduction by by Frank Deford, Houghton Mifflin, November 1993, ISBN:0395633249
  
• "Basketball Season", Oxford American, #2
  
• "Essay on Memories", Oxford American #6
  
• "Essay on Crime", Oxford American #11
  
• "Belles & Ladies", Oxford American, A Special Double Issue on Southern Women #26
  
• "Tribute to Willie Morris", Oxford American #29
  
• "Spirituality & the Novel", Oxford American #30
  
• "The Hidden South", Oxford American #41
  

	The Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years of Contemporary Southern Writing by Donna Tartt, Rick Bragg (Foreword), Roy Blount Jr., John Grisham, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Steve Martin, Larry Brown, William Faulkner, Rick Bass Hill Street Press Paperback 288 pages June 2002 ISBN: 1588180816 A comprehensive anthology of The Oxford American's most memorable pieces published during the first decade of the magazine's existence, these articles prove provocative, opinionated, and irreverent. The Oxford American has served as an incubator and archive for the most promising and most established voices in contemporary Southern writing. It offers up an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoiding the hackneyed notion of the South as the exclusive province of the gothic or the sentimental dominion of moonlight and magnolias. Collected here are the magazine's stellar fiction and poetry offered alongside its best commentary, profiles, photography, comics, and reporting on politics, history, religions, art, books, film, and humor.
	The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture: Eight Novelists write about their Craft and their Context Edited by Paul S. Fiddes University of Wales Press Hardcover 200 pages January 2002 ISBN: 0708315984 From the publisher If, as Donna Tartt writes, 'the novel in its history and genesis is an emphatically secular art form: the product of a secular society, addressing primarily secular concerns', how can there be any relationship between spirituality and narrative fiction? Are there any specific factors in the form of the novel and in modern culture generally which might make the novel an unsuitable medium for the exploration of religious experience and spiritual values, or can the novel take the reader on a journey of spiritual discovery? In this book, practitioners of the art of novel-writing Donna Tartt, Jill Paton Walsh, David McLaurin, Sara Maitland, Catherine Fox, Susan Howatch, T. Davis Bunn and William Horwood consider the relationship between the novel and spirituality in our society, while an introductory essay by the editor, Paul S. Fiddes, discusses the main issues to emerge from the collection.  Originally given as public lectures between 1997 and 1999, the essays collected in The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture provide exciting and thought-provoking reflections upon creativity, freedom and human destiny within the context of (post) modern culture, as well as being first hand testimony to the experience of creative writing. Contents and contributors: * Paul S. Fiddes, Introduction: the novel and the spiritual journey today; * Donna Tartt, The spirit and writing in a secular world; * Jill Paton Walsh, The blizzard of circumstance: writing and moral discovery; * David McLaurin, The dark night of the novel in an age of weak faith; * Sara Maitland, Religious experience and the novel: a problem of genre and culture; * Catherine Fox, 'Telling the old, old story': God and the novelist as creators; * Susan Howatch, A question of integrity: stories and the meaning of wholeness; * T. Davis Bunn, 'Christian fiction' in American society: a defence of a despised genre; * William Horwood, The novel and the safe journey of healing.
	The Glory of J.F. Powers Harper's Magazine July 2001
	Portfolio: William Eggleston Artforum October 2001
	Remembering Willie by Kay Holloway (Photographer) Univ Pr of Mississippi Paperback 120 pages May 2000 ISBN: 1578062675 "A collection of tributes memorializing Willie Morris, the acclaimed southern author." From the Publisher All Who Knew Willie Morris claim and treasure a part of him. After his sudden death on August 2, 1999, there was a spontaneous and immediate outpouring of praise of him and his works. In this time of grief his close friends, literary colleagues, political figures, and some of the nation's most notable journalists sounded their acclamation of this indelibly influential writer. This book of memorials collects twenty-seven eulogies and tributes. These came from Yazoo City, his boyhood hometown, from his native state of Mississippi, from literary America, from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and from the Oval Office, with appreciations from William Styron, David Halberstam, Ellen Douglas, Mike Espy, William Winter, Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Will Campbell, Donna Tartt, Rick Bragg, Paul Greenberg, Deborah Mathis, Linton Weeks, Michael Skube, the President of the United States, and others. Included also is an essay by Morris, "A Love That Transcends Sadness." From Time.com "Willie Morris, 64, American writer and former Harper's magazine editor whose mellifluous prose captured the homey small-town rhythms and jarring racist quirks of his beloved Mississippi Delta; in Jackson, Mississippi. In his 1967 memoir North Toward Home, Morris recounted his rise from prankster good ol' boy to New York literary wunderkind. After moving back south in 1980, he set up an informal literary salon, encouraging aspiring writers like John Grisham and Donna Tartt." Donna Tartt writes an examination of the life of Willie Morris in The Salt Journal: Reconstructing Meaning, 1998. Edited by David Barton. The Salt Institute, PO Box N, Santa Fe, NM 87504. ISSN: 1099-6281 Willie Morris Links 1 2 3 "I'm spending most of my time writing. I have begun a novel, and that occupies my days and nights pretty well... The New Yorker has been rejecting my stories on the grounds that they are 'too sardonic,' which I take as a supreme compliment." - Donna Tartt, October 1983, letter to Willie Morris
	Introduction A World of Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington: Ten Centuries of Art by Martha Richler Scala Books Hardcover 224 pages March 1, 1998 ISBN:1857591763 From the Publisher This major new addition to the Scala Books list is both a popular guide to the National Gallery of Art and an introduction to the principal themes in Western art history from the 12th century to the present, using examples from the Gallery's permanent collection. With over 300 color illustrations, this work presents the full scope of the NGA's collections, ranging from paintings and sculpture to prints, drawings and decorative arts. The book is given a unique literary dimension through its use of quotes from artists and writers which accompany the illustrations and main text. The modern period is given special emphasis: the last six of eleven chapters are devoted to the 19th and 20th centuries, bringing the reader up-to-date, with a straight-forward discussion of contemporary art.
	Introduction The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson Raven Books Trade Paperback London 531 pages June 1996 ISBN: 1854874373 Order Dark fantasy omnibus, with a new Introduction by Donna Tartt. Contents: The lottery. Originally published: London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. The haunting of Hill House. Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1960. We have always lived in the castle. Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1963.
	Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team Harper's Magazine 288 April 1994 37-40
	"Basketball Season" The Best American Sports Writing 1993 edited & introduction by by Frank Deford Houghton Mifflin Hardcover November 1993 ISBN:0395633249 "Donna Tartt writes amusingly about high-school cheerleading." - Kirkus Reviews
	"Basketball Season" Oxford American #2 Order "...Donna Tartt offers some insight into class struggle in high school in her reminiscence of her days as a cheerleader." - from Publisher's Weekly
	"Essay on Memories" Oxford American #6 Order "Donna Tartt ties in a hallucinatory visit to Australia with some sharp memories from growing up in the little town of Grenada" - editor Marc Smirnoff
	"Essay on Crime" Oxford American #11 Order
	"Belles & Ladies" Oxford American A Special Double Issue on Southern Women #26 Order "Donna Tartt dissects the difference between Southern ladies and Southern belles with precision and understanding." - editor Marc Smirnoff
	"Tribute to Willie Morris" Oxford American #29 Order "I must also mention the stirring and eloquent tributes to Willie Morris written by Donna Tartt and William Styron. Both are very powerful."- editor Marc Smirnoff
	"Spirituality & the Novel" Oxford American #30 Order "Donna Tartt's essay on spirituality and the modern novel is a straightforward discussion of the role faith plays in her life as a writer. It is among the best pieces we've ever run." - editor Marc Smirnoff
	"The Hidden South" Oxford American #41 Order Art Views by Donna Tartt. Spanish Grandeur in Mississippi: An important art exhibit offered Mississippians a flashback to Imperial Spain.

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