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      • Tartt transferred to Bennington in the fall of 1982 on the advice of writer Willie Morris, her Ole Miss mentor. Technically she entered as a sophomore, but she’d stay at Bennington for four years, graduate the same year as her friend Easton Ellis and her ex-friend Lethem (well, the year Lethem would’ve graduated had he not dropped out).
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  1. Sep 28, 2021 · I remembered out loud that Donna Tartt had co-dedicated the book to him, and Bret said that he and Donna had been at Bennington together—then mentioned that they’d gone on a date freshman...

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  3. Nov 16, 2021 · Donna Tartt, a subject of my new podcast, “Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College,” attended Bennington from the fall of 1982 to the spring of 1986. (Sweating in the spotlight alongside...

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  4. Oct 22, 2021 · “Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College” digs into the college years of novelists Donna Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, and Bret Easton Ellis. Do its revelations have any literary value?

  5. She began writing The Secret History, a “reverse murder mystery” set in a fictional Vermont College, while at Bennington, alongside her classmates including Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Jill Eisenstadt.

  6. Nov 17, 2023 · And in speculation, perhaps, the literary murder of a schoolmate at Bennington College – one of the most profligate (in all the senses of art, success, and drugs) and notoriously wealthy colleges at the time in the United States.

  7. Sep 26, 2022 · Like the fictional Hampden College of The Secret History, Bennington is a small, prestigious liberal arts college in Vermont—but Tartt has claimed that she didn’t take inspiration from her...

  8. May 31, 2019 · In Lili Anolik’s look back at Bennington College’s class of 1986 for Esquire, Paula Powers describes Donna Tartt’s freshman-year martini hours, and I can’t stop thinking about them. “She was wearing a black brocade skirt-suit and high heels and smoking from a long, slender cigarette holder.”

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