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| Born | October 25, 1941 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Education | Duke University (BA) Columbia University |
| Genre | Literary realism |
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| Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1985) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989) |
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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four 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.[1] 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.
She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail",[2] her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language."[3]
Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others.
- ^ "Anne Tyler Announced as Winner of the 2012 Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence". thefreelibrary.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
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