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Over her long career, distinguished by her singular gift for peeling back the layers of family life, she has produced over 20 novels, as well as short stories and criticism. Anna quindlen amy tan elizabeth berg david guterson jane hamilton andre dubus sue miller john irving jane smiley chris. Anne tylers latest book presents one of her saddest. Anne tyler was born in minneapolis, minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in raleigh, north carolina. Oktober 1941 in minneapolis, minnesota ist eine us amerikanische schriftstellerin. Books by anne tyler authors like anne tyler what should i read next register for free to build your own book lists. Her twentieth novel, a spool of blue thread, was shortlisted for the man booker prize in 2015. She has published 22 novels, the best known of which are dinner at the homesick restaurant 1982, the accidental tourist 1985, and breathing lessons 1988. Love is in the airor maybe anxiously repressedin february and my romantic literature jag concludes with the accidental tourist, the 1985 novel by anne tyler and winner of the national book critics circle award for fiction that year.
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