Anne Tyler in general

One of my favourite authors is Anne Tyler, whom I consider one of the best novellists in the world. She has the ability to write wonderful books, each one being very different. She certainly cannot be accused of writing to formula. She first came to my attention when I read The Accidental Tourist, which was made into a film starring Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis and William Hurt. I have not seen the film but, before I read the book, I was aware that Turner and Hurt were the main characters and could easily place them in their respective roles in the book. A Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Anne Tyler was born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ...  Read the complete review

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1941. Her father Lloyd Parry Tyler was an Industrial Chemist and her mother worked as a Social Worker,Phyllis Mahon Tyler. They lived in several Quaker Communties before settling down in Raleigh, North Carolina. She managed to obtain useful information for her future novels so this was an excellent background for her to grow up in as she developrd a desire to write books. The other thing that inspired Anne was the writer Eudora Welty. Anne went to Duke University and she studied under an American Reynolds Pace who was also a novelist. In 1963 she married Taghi Mohammed Modarressi who is an I ...  Read the complete review