Anne tyler
Anne tylerAmerican novelist and short-story writer, whose keen ear for dialogue and life-like characters have won critical acclaim. Several of Tyler's novels focus on loneliness, isolation, human interactions of eccentric middle-class people living in disunited families.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but grew up in North Carolina, as the daughter of an industrial chemist and social worker. The family lived among various Quaker communities in the rural south before settling in Raleigh, North Carolina.
At the age of 19 Tyler graduated from Duke University, Raleigh, where she won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing. She did post-graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before settling in Baltimore Tyler was the Russian bibliographer at Duke University and worked in the law library of McGill University.
As a writer Tyler made her debut with If Morning Ever Comes in 1964, depicting a young man returning from Columbia to North Carolina and attempting to find his own way under family expectations. It was followed by The Tin Can Tree, and A Slipping-Down Life.
From 1967 Tyler worked as a full-time writer. She...
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