Tyler, Anne
Tyler, Anne ( 1941 – ),American novelist, who grew up in North Carolina but has spent most of her adult life in Baltimore, Maryland. Her novels are people-centred, using anecdote and badinage, and she was early inspired by E. Welty . Her presentations of a stratified Baltimore and of contemporary cultural shifts make her the first urban southern novelist. Her fiction reveals the necessity for individuals, however isolated, to receive recognition, however tenuous, if society is to be healthily pluralist. A Slipping Down Life ( 1970 ), a tender portrait of a fat young rock-music groupie, is in Tyler's view her first successful novel. Searching for Caleb ( 1976 ) has the generous canvas now associated with her. Outstanding novels, each offsetting a character in crisis against the demands of others, include Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ( 1982 ), The Accidental Tourist ( 1985 ),...
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