Official website (https://annetyler.com/)
OverviewAI-generated
Anne Tyler was born in 1941. She is the mother of two children.
Her work is included in the Pulitzer Prize collection. It is also part of the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-10-25 ) October 25, 1941 (age 84) , Minneapolis , Minnesota, U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist short story writer literary critic
- Education
- Duke University ( BA ), Columbia University
- Genre
- Literary realism
- Notable works
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant The Accidental Tourist Breathing Lessons
- Notable awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1985), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989)
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Official website
Anne Tyler
The official site of Anne Tyler, bestselling author of The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Breathing Lessons, and many other novels.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anne
- Family name
- Tyler
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- American English
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Official website
- annetyler.com
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Baltimore
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- date of birth
- 1941-10-25
- writing language
- English language
- social media followers
- 44000
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- married name
- Anne Modarressi
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Encyclopedic overview
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail", her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language."
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