Anne Tyler
(b. 1941)

Inspired by the work of Eudora Welty, Anne Tyler devotes much of her fiction to exposing the latent, unusual characteristics of outwardly ordinary people.

Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but she spent most of her childhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. She studied Russian at Duke and at Columbia, while at the same time developing into an enthusiastic and dedicated fiction writer. In 1964, when she was 24, she published her first novel, If Morning Ever Comes. Since then, she has published several more novels, including The Tin Can Tree (1966), The Clock Winder (1973), Earthly Possessions (1977), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), and The Accidental Tourist (1985). She has also written a vast number of short stories, many of which she has contributed to The New Yorker.

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