ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
“Poignant . . . funny . . . The Accidental Tourist is one of
her best. . . . [Tyler] has never been stronger.”—The New York
Times
“Bittersweet . . . evocative . . . It’s easy to forget this is the
warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at
the dry cleaners. . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great
compassion.”—The Boston Globe
“Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength
gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.”—Los Angeles
Times
“A delight . . . a graceful comic novel about getting through
life.”—The Wall Street Journal
“A rarely equaled richness and depth . . . Delicious humor . . .
Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably
bleaker place.”—Newday
“Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating . . . One cannot
reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this."—The
Washington Post
“Hilarious . . . and touching . . . Anne Tyler is a wise and
perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foibles.”—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
“Comic . . . Sweetly perverse . . . A novel animated by witty
invention and lively personalities.”—Time
“Anne Tyler [is] covering common ground with uncommon insight. . .
. Convincingly real.”—People
"Poignant . . . funny . . . The Accidental Tourist is one of her
best. . . . [Tyler] has never been stronger."-The New
York Times
"Bittersweet . . . evocative . . . It's easy to forget this is the
warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at
the dry cleaners. . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great
compassion."-The Boston Globe
"Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength
gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one."-Los
Angeles Times
"A delight . . . a graceful comic novel about getting through
life."-The Wall Street Journal
"A rarely equaled richness and depth . . . Delicious humor . . .
Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably
bleaker place."-Newday
"Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating . . . One cannot
reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this."-The
Washington Post
"Hilarious . . . and touching . . . Anne Tyler is a wise and
perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human
foibles."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Comic . . . Sweetly perverse . . . A novel animated by witty
invention and lively personalities."-Time
"Anne Tyler [is] covering common ground with uncommon insight. . .
. Convincingly
real."-People
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