About Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler 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.
Known for:
Breathing Lessons|A Patchwork Planet|A Slipping-Down Life|Back When We Were Grownups|Celestial Navigation|Digging to America|Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant|Earthly Possessions|If Morning Ever Comes|Ladder of Years|Morgan's Passing|The Beginner's Goodbye|The Clock Winder|The Tin Can Tree|A Spool of Blue Thread|Noah's Compass|Saint Maybe|Searching for Caleb|The Accidental Tourist|The Amateur Marriage
Notable works:
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
