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Anne Tyler

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Maggie and Ira Moran set out for a friend’s funeral and end up going on a journey through the past to discover people and events can never be changed and you will always end up right back where you started. Maggie’s best friend from childhood, Serena Gill, has just suffered the death of her husband, Max. Maggie and Ira travel from Baltimore to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, in order to...

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Anne Tyler Biographies (4)

Anne Tyler

903 words, approx. 4 pages

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 ... Read more

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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... Read more

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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... Read more