About Anne Tyler
Author of 18 novels, born in Minneapolis in 1941, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons, and The Accidental Tourist was made into a major film; she is a member of the American Academy of Art and Letters. She has lived for many years with her family in Baltimore, where her novels are set.
Novels
If Morning Ever Comes (1964)
The Tin Can Tree (1965)
A Slipping Down Life (1969)
The Clock Winder (1972)
Celestial Navigation (1974)
Searching for Caleb (1975)
Earthly Possessions (1977)
Morgan's Passing (1980)
Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant (1982)
The Accidental Tourist (1985)
Breathing Lessons (1988)
Saint Maybe (1991)
Tumble Tower (1993)
Ladder of Years (1995)
A Patchwork Planet (1998)
Back When We Were Grownups (2001)
The Amateur Marriage (2004)
Digging to America (2006)
The Tin Can Tree (1965)
A Slipping Down Life (1969)
The Clock Winder (1972)
Celestial Navigation (1974)
Searching for Caleb (1975)
Earthly Possessions (1977)
Morgan's Passing (1980)
Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant (1982)
The Accidental Tourist (1985)
Breathing Lessons (1988)
Saint Maybe (1991)
Tumble Tower (1993)
Ladder of Years (1995)
A Patchwork Planet (1998)
Back When We Were Grownups (2001)
The Amateur Marriage (2004)
Digging to America (2006)
Awards
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Anne Tyler recommends
 In a Summer Season (1961) Elizabeth Taylor "Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabth Bowen - soul sisters all." |  Picture Palace (1978) Paul Theroux "Vibrant and compelling...Paul Theroux at his satirical best." |  Black Mountain Breakdown (1980) Lee Smith "I loved this book." | |
 A Transit of Venus (1980) Shirley Hazzard "A wonderfully mysterious book ... Both plot and characters are many layered. Unforgettably rich." |  The Art of Living: And Other Stories (1981) John Gardner "These are miracles of stories--fully realized, far reaching, greater than the sum of their parts." |  Collaborators (1987) (Flesh Made Word, book 1) Janet Kauffman "...her story is so important, so painful and so deeply satisfying." | |
 Selected Stories (1988) Andre Dubus "Stunning... a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country's ablest writers." |  Lewis Percy (1989) Anita Brookner "May be [Brookner's] most finely wraught novel... A brilliant portrait gallery." |  The Sleeping Father (2003) Matthew Sharpe "Fresh, funny, quirky." | |
 My House in Umbria (2003) William Trevor "[My House in Umbria] reminds you what good reading is all about. " |
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