Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941, is an American novelist and the author of numerous novels. Her novel Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence for her lifetime achievement. A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Tyler studied Slavic languages at Duke University and Columbia University and initially worked as a librarian and bibliographer.