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Anne Tyler

USA  (1941 - )
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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.
 
Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel nominee (1983) : Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1989) : Breathing Lessons
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (1996) : Ladder of Years
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2007) : Digging to America


Anne Tyler recommends
In a Summer Season
In a Summer Season (1961)
Elizabeth Taylor
"Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabth Bowen - soul sisters all."
Picture Palace
Picture Palace (1978)
Paul Theroux
"Vibrant and compelling...Paul Theroux at his satirical best."
Black Mountain Breakdown
Black Mountain Breakdown (1980)
Lee Smith
"I loved this book."
A Transit of Venus
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
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
Collaborators (1987)
(Flesh Made Word, book 1)
Janet Kauffman
"...her story is so important, so painful and so deeply satisfying."
Selected Stories
Selected Stories (1988)
Andre Dubus
"Stunning... a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country's ablest writers."
Lewis Percy
Lewis Percy (1989)
Anita Brookner
"May be [Brookner's] most finely wraught novel... A brilliant portrait gallery."
The Sleeping Father
The Sleeping Father (2003)
Matthew Sharpe
"Fresh, funny, quirky."
My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria (2003)
William Trevor
"[My House in Umbria] reminds you what good reading is all about. "



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