Anne Tyler

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October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States

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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and 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. The Beginner's Goodbye is Anne Tyler's nineteenth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Average rating: 3.63 · 89,807 ratings · 7,361 reviews · 38 distinct works

	The Accidental Tourist 3.79 avg rating — 22,198 ratings — published 1985 — 40 editions	My rating:
	Breathing Lessons 3.59 avg rating — 8,219 ratings — published 1988 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Digging to America 3.45 avg rating — 8,816 ratings — published 2006 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.78 avg rating — 6,333 ratings — published 1982 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Back When We Were Grownups 3.43 avg rating — 6,714 ratings — published 2001 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Saint Maybe 3.79 avg rating — 5,309 ratings — published 1991 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Amateur Marriage 3.47 avg rating — 5,727 ratings — published 2004 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Ladder of Years 3.66 avg rating — 4,948 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	My rating:
	A Patchwork Planet 3.64 avg rating — 4,042 ratings — published 1998 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Noah's Compass 3.19 avg rating — 4,252 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	My rating:

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"A grieving man grapples with visitations from his dead wife in The Beginner's Goodbye, a new book from the fiction master who wrote The Accidental Tourist." ...More

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“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
― Anne Tyler

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“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

tags: inspirational , love

111 people liked it

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)

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by Anne Tyler

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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

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