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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1941. Her father Lloyd Parry Tyler was an Industrial Chemist and her mother worked as a Social Worker,Phyllis Mahon Tyler.

They lived in several Quaker Communties before settling down in Raleigh, North Carolina. She managed to obtain useful information for her future novels so this was an excellent background for her to grow up in as she developrd a desire to write books. The other thing that inspired Anne was the writer Eudora Welty.

Anne went to Duke University and she studied under an American Reynolds Pace who was also a novelist.

In 1963 she married Taghi Mohammed Modarressi who is an I ranian born psychiatrist and she went with him to McGill University which is in Montreal, Canada.

During her time there she was able to write her first two novels which were IF MORNING EVER COMES & The TIN CAN TREE.

Then in 1967 they moved to Baltimore Maryland where she spent her time bringing up her two daughters and writing novels.
Here stories are often set in rural North Carolina or Baltimore.

The CLOCK WINDER is a story of a young woman's year off from college and the relationship she forms with a family that she is working for in Baltimore.

Her seventh novel SEARCHING FOR CALEB is once again set in Baltimore and goes through four generations of a Baltimore family.

The book that she is well known for is one that was made into a film which had William Hurt and Kathleen Turner staring in it, THE ACCIDENTIAL TOURIST which also was awarded in 1986 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD.
Another one of her books was BREATHING LESSONS which won the PULITZER PRIZE.

She has written so many novels. The one the I actually enjoy the most was the first one that I read which was recommended to me and that one was DIGGING TO AMERICA which was one of her most recent ones.