Quick Facts About Anne Tyler
- Born
- October 25, 1941
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Known for
- Breathing Lessons, A Patchwork Planet, A Slipping-Down Life, Back When We Were Grownups, Celestial Navigation
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.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
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