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Anne Tyler

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    (October 25, 1941- )
    Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Wrote the novels 'If Morning Ever Comes' (1964), 'A Slipping Down Life' (1970), 'The Clock Winder' (1972), 'Searching for Caleb' (1975), 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' (1982), 'The Accidental Tourist' (1985), 'Breathing Lessons' (1988), 'Saint Maybe' (1991), 'Ladder of Years' (1995), 'A Patchwork Planet' (1998), 'Back When We Were Grownups' (2001), 'The Amateur Marriage' (2004) and 'Digging to America' (2006)

Why she might be annoying:

    She said not attending school until she was 11 caused her to view 'the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise.'
    She refuses to do face-to-face interviews, publicly read from her books, or appear at book signings.
    She said, 'I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.'
    She said the only trait she shares with any of her characters is 'alphabetizing my spices, as in The Accidental Tourist.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She graduated from Duke University at age 19, having twice won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing.
    She won the National Book Critics Circle Award (1985) and Pulitzer Prize (1989).
    She survived breast cancer (1998).
    She said, 'What I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying