Anne Tyler
Autor/a de The Accidental Tourist
Sobre l'autor
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 25, 1941. She graduated from Duke University at the age of 19 and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a librarian and bibliographer. Her first novel, If Morning mostra'n més Ever Comes, was published in 1964. Her other works include Saint Maybe, Back When We Were Grownups, Digging to America, Noah's Compass, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Spool of Blue Thread, and Vinegar Girl. She has won several awards including the PEN Faulkner Award in 1983 for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Accidental Tourist, and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons. The Accidental Tourist was adapted into a 1988 movie starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. In 2018 her title, Clock Dance, made the bestsellers list. (Bowker Author Biography) Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. "Back When We Were Grownups" is her 15th novel; her 11th, "Breathing Lessons", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler Omnibus: The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Searching for Caleb (1991) 118 exemplars
Anne Tyler Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Morgan's Passing, The Tin Can Tree, If Morning Ever Comes (1990) 100 exemplars
Anne Tyler: Three Complete Novels: A Patchwork Planet * Ladder of Years * Saint Maybe (1998) 54 exemplars
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Selected and Introduced by — 47 exemplars
Average Waves in Unprotected Waters / Knack for Languages / Holding Things Together (2004) 44 exemplars
Anne Tyler Omnibus: If Morning Ever Comes, The Tin Can Tree, A Slipping-Down Life (1990) 32 exemplars
Anne Tyler Omnibus: Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist (1990) 14 exemplars
Anne Tyler Omnibus: Earthly Possessions, Morgan's Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1991) 12 exemplars
Anne Tyler Omnibus: The Accidental Tourist, Back When We Were Grownups, Breathing Lessons, A Ptchwork Planet (1986) 4 exemplars
Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe 3 exemplars
The clock winder 1 exemplars
Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew retold 1 exemplars
Les adieux pour Débutants: Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Sylvie Schneiter (2014) 1 exemplars
Beautiful Lies 1 exemplars
Toujours paartir 1 exemplars
Celestial navigation 1 exemplars
Penelope Fitzgerald 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Col·laborador — 180 exemplars
Det Bästas Bokval (2004) vol 232: Besökaren; Det sista löftet; Ord mot ord; Förr när vi var vuxna (2004) — Autor — 2 exemplars
Best in Books: Sea Jade, Kennedy without Tears, If Morning Ever Comes, The Ziegfeld's Girl, A Vanishing America (1965) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1941-10-25
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Educació
- Duke University
Columbia University (Russian studies) - Professions
- librarian
bibliographer
novelist
short-story writer - Relacions
- Modarressi, Taghi (husband)
Modarressi, Mitra (daughter)
Jones, Judith (editor) - Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1983)
- Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1977)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011) - Agent
- Diarmuid Russell (Russell and Volkening)
Timothy Seldes
Membres
Converses
January 2019: Anne Tyler a Monthly Author Reads (agost 2021)
Anne Tyler: American Author Challenge 2016 a 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (maig 2016)
Detached woman works for family, brother commits suicide, but a happy ending. a Name that Book (octubre 2011)
Fiction- "Perfect" wife and mom walks away from family during beach vacation and begins a completely a Name that Book (setembre 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
1970s (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
Booker Prize (1)
AP Lit (1)
Unread books (1)
All Iowa Reads (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Best First Lines (1)
1980s (1)
GAL Book Club (1)
To Read (1)
Female Author (2)
1960s (2)
Carole's List (2)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Southern Fiction (1)
Secrets Books (1)
USA Road Trip (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 76
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 50,648
- Popularitat
- #301
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 1,700
- ISBN
- 1,201
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 275