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Anne Tyler

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult

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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. She has published 20 novels, her debut novel being If Morning Ever Comes in (1964). Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ...more

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The Accidental Tourist
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler
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“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
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“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
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Polls

November 2019 New School Poll

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 1951, 160 pages
 
  79 votes, 30.5%

Stoner by John Williams, 1965, 278 pages
 
  62 votes, 23.9%

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler, 1985, 352 pages
 
  41 votes, 15.8%

 
  38 votes, 14.7%

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, 1980, 219 pages
 
  28 votes, 10.8%

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1989, 518 pages
 
  11 votes, 4.2%

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