Anne Tyler was born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The daughter of Quakers, she spent her early life in Quaker communities in North Carolina and the Midwest. Tyler attended Duke University for her undergraduate degree and Columbia University for a graduate program in Slavic Studies. She went on to work as a librarian at McGill University until she finally settled in Baltimore, where she started writing full-time. Many of her major novels are also set in the city of Baltimore. Tyler has written 22 novels and numerous short stories. Her writing primarily deals with problems of modern American life.
Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for her 11th book, Breathing Lessons, in 1989. She was also...
