Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (Born 1941) is an American author. Her works include A Slipping-Down Life (1970), Searching for Caleb (1976), Morgan's Passing (1980), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), Breathing Lessons (1988), and Saint Maybe (1991). She won a Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons.

Life and works

Tyler was born October 25, 1941. Her family moved frequently when she was a child, though they settled in North Carolina, and she attended Duke University and Columbia University where she majored in Russian and married an Iranian psychologist. In the 1960s, she changed writing from a secondary pursuit to her top priority, moved to Baltimore, and began to produce novel after novel. Her early novels include If Morning Ever Comes (1964), The Tin Can Tree (1965), A Slipping-Down Life (1970), and The Clock Winder (1972), but she became famous around her publication of Searching for Caleb (1976). She generally writes about generic people doing everyday things, and is more lately preoccupied with the fear of death as she approaches old age. In 2016, she tried to "rewrite" a Shakespeare play she labeled as misogynistic by changing the setting to present-day America, changing the names, making the girl (Katerina, now Kate) smart yet quiet, and granting the girl every victory possible, which she considers necessary for the book not to be misogynistic.