- Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born
October 25 ,1941 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S.novelist .Born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota , Tyler grew up inRaleigh, North Carolina , graduated at age nineteen fromDuke University , and completed graduate work inRussia n studies atColumbia University in New York City. She worked as a librarian and bibliographer before moving to Maryland. In 1963, Tyler marriedIran ianpsychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, Tezh and Mitra. Modarressi died in 1997. Tyler resides inBaltimore, Maryland , where most of her novels are set, often crossing decades in a family's life.Her eleventh novel, "
Breathing Lessons ", received the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. "The Accidental Tourist " was awarded theNational Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was made into a 1988 movie starringWilliam Hurt andGeena Davis . Tyler's ninth novel, "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ," which she considers her best work, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1983. She has edited three anthologies: "The Best American Short Stories 1983," "Best of the South," and "Best of the South: The Best of the Second Decade". She is noteworthy among contemporary best selling novelists, for she does not grant face-to-face interviews and rarely does book tours, nor does she make many other public appearances, although she has made herself available through email interviews.Works
Novels
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If Morning Ever Comes " (1964)
*"The Tin Can Tree " (1965)
*"A Slipping-Down Life " (1970)
*"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)
*"Ladder of Years " (1995)
*"A Patchwork Planet " (1998)
*"Back When We Were Grownups " (2001)
*"The Amateur Marriage " (2004)
*"Digging to America " (2006)Uncollected stories
Although Tyler's short stories have been published in "
The New Yorker ", "The Saturday Evening Post ", "Redbook ", "McCall's ", and "Harper's", they have not been published as a collection. Her stories include:
* "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" (1977)
* "Teenage Wasteland" (1983)Film adaptations
*"The Accidental Tourist" (1988)
*"Breathing Lessons " (TV) (1994)
*"Saint Maybe " (TV) (1998)
*"A Slipping-Down Life " (1999)
*"Earthly Possessions " (TV) (1999)
*"Back When We Were Grownups " (TV) (2004)External links
[http://imdb.com/name/nm0878773/ Internet Movie Database entry]
[http://www.failbetter.com/20/TylerInterview.php Interview]
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