December 23, 1963 -
American novelist and short-story & non-fiction writer
Author of "The Secret History", "The Little Friend" (for which she was on the shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003) and "The Goldfinch" (for which she was on the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction in 2014)