Tyler, Anne
Tyler, Anne( 1941– ),novelist born in Min-neapolis, educated at Duke University (B.A., 1961), lives in Baltimore, the scene of some of her fiction, which also is often set in small Southern towns. Her first novels—If Morning Ever Comes (1965), The Tin Can Tree (1966), and A Slipping Down Life (1970)—published before she was 30, deal with families and the separations they suffer through deaths and through the unhappy isolation of one member from another. These themes are also presented in later novels: The Clock Winder (1973); Celestial Navigation (1975); Searching for Caleb (1976); Earthly Possessions (1977); Morgan's Passing (1980); Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), telling of the long, often unhappy life of a deserted wife who is a possessive and domineering mother; The Accidental Tourist (1985), about a sad travel writer, from which a film was made;...
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