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Anne Tyler (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Although Anne Tyler’s books have always been popular with general readers, acclaim from critics came more slowly. With Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, however, Tyler’s position in American literature was firmly established. In addition to her many short stories and novels, Tyler is much in demand as a book reviewer. She has achieved her greatest success and recognition as a witty yet serious and compassionate observer of human nature, with a polished style, a strong sense of irony, and an uncanny ability to create memorable characters and to reproduce their speech as if...

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• Accidental Tourist, The (American Fiction)
• Accidental Tourist, The (Women’s Literature)
• Accidental Tourist, The (Character Profiles)
• Accidental Tourist, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Artificial Family, The (Short Stories)
• Back When We Were Grownups (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Breathing Lessons (Magill Book Reviews)
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (American Fiction)
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Women’s Literature)
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Character Profiles)
• Ladder of Years (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Ladder of Years (Magill Book Reviews)
• Patchwork Planet, A (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Patchwork Planet, A (Magill Book Reviews)
• Saint Maybe (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Saint Maybe (Women’s Literature)
• Saint Maybe (Character Profiles)
• Teenage Wasteland (Short Stories)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)