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'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY
'My favourite author . . . She writes such absorbing, wise, tender books, devastatingly acute about human nature . . . She never fails' JACQUELINE WILSON
'Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate' HANYA YANIGIHARA
'Anne Tyler really is the best . . . her sheer brilliance makes it all seem so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON
'One of my favourite writers' ALI SMITH
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About Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis in 1941 but 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. This is Anne Tyler’s sixteenth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore. In 2012 Anne Tyler was the winner of the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
