Skip to content
Anne Tyler

Official website (https://annetyler.com/)

EntityQ235615· pop 43· linked from 425 articles

Anne Tyler

Sign in to save

American novelist

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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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)

via Wikipedia infobox

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.

annetyler.com →

Link to the official site · 8,614 chars · not written by Vinony

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
Show 6 more facts
date of birth
1941-10-25
writing language
English language
social media followers
44000
nominated for
Booker Prize
married name
Anne Modarressi
Sources (9)

via Wikidata · CC0

~35 min read

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."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anne Tyler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (2)