American · b. 1941
Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist celebrated for her warm, perceptive, and quietly profound novels of family life, most set in her beloved Baltimore, including The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons.
Anne Tyler has spent her long career chronicling the lives of ordinary families, most often in Baltimore, with extraordinary tenderness, humor, and insight. She is one of America’s most beloved and acclaimed novelists.
Her novel Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, while The Accidental Tourist was a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and a celebrated film. Across more than twenty novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Spool of Blue Thread, she explores marriage, family, and the quiet dramas of domestic life with unmatched empathy.
Tyler is admired for finding profundity and grace in the ordinary, and for her gentle, clear-eyed compassion toward her characters.
by Anne Tyler
Macon Leary writes travel guides for people who hate to travel — guides on how to find the familiar in the foreign, how to minimise the discomfort of being elsewhere. After his son is murdered and his wife leaves, he moves back in with his eccentric siblings and their dog. The dog trainer, Muriel Pritchett, enters his life uninvited and changes it. Tyler's most beloved novel.
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by Anne Tyler
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years. On a single day in 1988 they drive from Baltimore to a friend's funeral in Pennsylvania and back. What happens in the car, at the funeral, at an old friend's house along the way, illuminates the whole shape of their marriage — its compromises, its small deceptions, its persistent stubbornness of love. Tyler's Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Anne Tyler's complete bibliography in order — from The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons to Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Best starting points for new readers.
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Where to start with Anne Tyler — whether to begin with The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. A complete reading guide.
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