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 to Faulkner and Welty. Anne Tyler was born in Minneapo...

"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 people the privacy of the space around them and yet still produce some...

"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 space around them and yet still produce some warmth." Tyl...

RECOGNIZED FOR WRITING Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, Anne Tyler has also published an impressive number of short stories that have received little critical attention. In some of these stories, Tyler works with familiar themes like the family, the home, and the emotional connections between family...

Communities in Boston's western suburbs aren't doing enough to protect their water supplies, environmental activists charged this week. A report from the nonprofit group Clean Water Action examined whether cities and towns had adequate long-term drinking water protection plans and whether they sufficiently...