Anne Tyler

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States

October 25, 1941

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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: 3.68 · 138,047 ratings · 9,837 reviews · 40 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Accidental Tourist 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 40,976 ratings — published 1985 — 57 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathing Lessons 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 11,076 ratings — published 1988 — 43 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digging to America 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 11,263 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 9,166 ratings — published 1982 — 44 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back When We Were Grownups 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 8,863 ratings — published 2001 — 34 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Maybe 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 7,710 ratings — published 1991 — 28 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Amateur Marriage 3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 7,549 ratings — published 2004 — 39 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ladder of Years 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 6,896 ratings — published 1995 — 33 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beginner's Goodbye 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 6,895 ratings — published 2012 — 27 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Patchwork Planet 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 5,923 ratings — published 1998 — 37 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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April 2012, Anne Tyler
"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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Quotes by Anne Tyler

“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

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

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