Jan 7, 2009
From the age of six, Anne Tyler experienced a southern childhood: first at Celo, a wilderness
community in the mountains of North Carolina, where her mother and father, Phyllis and Lloyd
Tyler, joined a Quaker community; then in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she attended high
school and discovered in the works of Eudora
Welty that a writer may create literature from the ordinary things in life. At Duke
University, she majored in Russian and studied creative writing with author [The entire page is 1462 words long] ©2000-2009
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