Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist.
Tyler is the eldest of four children. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina, including in Raleigh, North Carolina. She didn't attend a school until she was 11 and this unorthodox upbringing enabled her to view 'the normal wo...
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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist.
Tyler is the eldest of four children. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina, including in Raleigh, North Carolina. She didn't attend a school until she was 11 and this unorthodox upbringing enabled her to view 'the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise'.
She graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a librarian and bibliographer before moving to Maryland. In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, Tezh and Mitra. Modarressi died in 1997. Tyler resides in Baltimore, Maryland, where most of her novels are set, often crossing decades in a family's life.
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