Tyler, Anne (1941—)
Anne Tyler, a novelist who has received much critical and popular acclaim, is known for her insightful, often comic depictions of family relationships and ordinary life. Her...
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Biography Essay"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told interviewer Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other pe...
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Anne Tyler (born 1941) is considered one of America's most important living writers. Her works evince familiarity with an extended literary tradition, with influences ranging from Emerson and Thoreau ...
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Anne Tyler has been steadily gaining well-deserved critical and popular attention for the eight novels and numerous short stories she has produced over the past seventeen years. Her work is as remark...
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"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the s...
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In the following essay, Dasgupta asserts that Tyler's fiction “may be regarded as a felicitous fusion of social and individual consciousness with emphasis on the latter, a common charact...
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In the following essay, Nollen examines three father figures in Tyler's fiction: Jeremy Pauling in Celestial Navigation, Ian Bedloe in Saint Maybe, and Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist.
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In the following essay, Grove discusses Tyler as a Southern writer and elucidates the role of place in Morgan's Passing.
Place is one of the lesser angels that watch over the racing hand of ...
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In the following review, Simon praises Tyler's characterization of Barnaby, the protagonist of The Patchwork Planet.
In her fourteenth novel [A Patchwork Planet], Anne Tyler illuminates hero...
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In the following essay, Durham explores the shifting gender roles in Saint Maybe.
In a 1982 lecture at Waterloo University on “Writing the Male Character,” Canadian novelist Margaret ...
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In the following essay, Coleman considers the role of redemption in The Clock Winder and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler's literary career spans more than thirty years and incl...
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In the following review, Stovel deems The Patchwork Planet “an amusing and enlightening odyssey.”
Tyler, author of over a dozen novels and dozens of stories, may be the best novelist ...
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In the following essay, Macpherson explores Tyler's use of fantasy and metafiction in Ladder of Years and discusses the role of the mother in the novel.
Anne Tyler is a popular novelist, and...
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In the following mixed review, Brookner argues that although Back When We Were Grownups “is as accomplished as ever there are signs that the formula may be showing its age.”
Anne Tyle...
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In the following review, Rose offers a favorable assessment of Back When We Were Grownups.
“Wasn't it strange how certain moments, now and then—certain turning points in a life...
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In the following review, Jacobs claims that although Back When We Were Grownups is a good read, it is not one of Tyler's best novels.
Anne Tyler's characters can be so familiar and so...
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In the following essay, Carson considers the topic of free will in Tyler's novels.
Anne Tyler's fifteen novels distinguish themselves from the usual run of novels of manners and socia...
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In the following essay, Jones perceives Ladder of Years as a “postfeminist revision” of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Following the 1995 publication of Anne Tyler's Ladde...
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In the following review of The Amateur Marriage, the critic maintains that “the range and power of this novel should not only please Tyler's immense readership but also awaken us to the ...
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In the following mixed review of The Amateur Marriage, Brookner compares the novels of Tyler and Carol Shields.
Anne Tyler has written 15 excellent novels—this is her 16th [The Amateur Marri...
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Critical Essay by Lynn Sharon Schwartz
The family as a sealed unit, with an imperious grip on its members through the twin traps of heredity and environment, is the subject of [Searching for Caleb]...
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Critical Essay by Walter Sullivan
Anne Tyler goes at her work with as much gusto as Margaret Drabble, but on a smaller scale and in a style that is more tightly controlled. Miss Tyler has learned a g...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
"Earthly Possessions" … is just another one of those slightly stale, wry books that so many women writers seem to be turning out: A heroine who ...
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Critical Essay by Roger Sale
I was born right here in Clarion; I grew up in that big brown turreted house next to Percy's Texaco. My mother was a fat lady who used to teach first grade. Her m...
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Critical Essay by Gilberto Perez
Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions is written in the first person, the narrator a housewife of thirty-five who, having lived all her life in the same house in Cl...
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Critical Essay by Thomas M. Disch
In the paradoxical character of Emily, at once passive and inflexible, ruthless in her rejections and unswerving in her loyalty, Tyler has created [in Morgan'...
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Critical Essay by Eva Hoffman
On one level, [Morgan's Passing is about a] disturbed man, a man "who had gone to pieces," or who had "arrived unassembled." Gower Mor...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
Before she is done, Anne Tyler will have populated an entire imaginary state of Maryland with odd people about whom you are obliged to care because their oddities are w...
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Critical Essay by A. G. Mojtabai
"Morgan's Passing" is a narrative replete with colorful and idiosyncratic detail, precise in its tenderness. And yet, for all its intentness of s...
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Critical Essay by James Wolcott
Like a sentry or a detective, Anne Tyler seems to notice everything: the pale fluorescent gloom of laundromats, pockets filled with lint-covered jellybeans, the smell ...
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Critical Essay by John Updike
[The only question remaining about Anne Tyler's] talent is: Will it ever, in its scintillating display of plenitude, make a dent as deep in our national self-awar...
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Critical Essay by John Updike
Anne Tyler, [like John Cheever], has sought brightness in the ordinary, and her art has needed only the darkening that would give her beautifully sketched shapes solidit...
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Critical Essay by John Allan Long
Several Southern novels have come out in the past year or so which bear little resemblance to earlier literary legends of the South.
These novels are not about th...
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Critical Essay by Millicent Bell
The fact that 24-year-old Anne Tyler … grew up in Raleigh, N.C., must seem to her significant enough to make her publishers note on the jacket of ["The ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
Writers are rare who can swiftly generate a story with instantly distinguishable characters and the prospect of development. Rarer still is the fiction art...
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Critical Essay by Vivian Gornick
Good writers often have preoccupations. Sets of characters or pieces of experience repeat themselves in book after book because an idea of life is being obsessed over...
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Critical Essay by R. Z. Sheppard
Every other year or so since 1964, loyal readers pick up their new Anne Tyler novel as they would buy a favored brand of sensible shoe. Each of her nine books is soli...
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In the following essay, Robertson analyzes how Tyler changes traditional ideas about family and its interaction with outsiders in her novels.
John Updike, a fan of Anne Tyler's work, remarke...
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In the following essay, Bennett outlines the various types of verbal humor Tyler employs in her novels.
In the essay "Still Just Writing," Anne Tyler comments on her unusual character...
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In the following essay. Bowers discusses the inside knowledge that Tyler shares with the readers of her novels.
In her most successful novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ...
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In the followingessay, Gilbert presents an overview of Tyler's work and major themes.
Anne Tyler, with ten novels, the last the winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award, has ...
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In the following review, Parini states that Tyler's Saint Maybe is "a realistic chronicle that celebrates family life without erasing the pain and boredom that families almost necessaril...
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In the following excerpt, Sutherland discusses the humility of Ian, the main character of Tyler's Saint Maybe, and calls him "the accidental hero" of the novel.
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In the following essay, Willrich presents an overview of Tyler's life, career, and approach to writing.
Novelist Anne Tyler has spent most of her 50 years observing from a distance, using he...
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In the following essay, Petry discusses how Tyler uses black characters as repositories of wisdom and knowledge in her novels.
To be frank, black characters do not loom large in the twelve novels o...
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London (dpa) - Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie Wednesday won
the Orange Broadband Prize for female fiction for her novel Half Of A
Yellow Sun, set during the Nigeria-Biaf...
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.Adichie, 29, also ...
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Three new travel books offer interesting perspectives on destinations and their connections to theater and literature.Theater buffs coming to New York to take in a show following the resolution of ...
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Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean ...
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Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."And what authors: Isaac B...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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