Anne Tyler, author portrait
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Anne Tyler

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Three Days in June
French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Teenage Wasteland
Clock Dance
Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
Vinegar Girl
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Beginner's Goodbye
Noah's Compass
Digging to America
Breathing Lessons
The Amateur Marriage
A Slipping-Down Life
Back When We Were Grownups
The Accidental Tourist
A Patchwork Planet
Searching for Caleb
Earthly Possessions
The Clock Winder
If Morning Ever Comes
Celestial Navigation
Saint Maybe
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Morgan's Passing
The Tin Can Tree
Ladder of Years

Books

Three Days in June
French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Teenage Wasteland
Clock Dance
Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
Vinegar Girl
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Beginner's Goodbye
Noah's Compass
Digging to America
Breathing Lessons
The Amateur Marriage
A Slipping-Down Life
Back When We Were Grownups
The Accidental Tourist
A Patchwork Planet
Searching for Caleb
Earthly Possessions
The Clock Winder
If Morning Ever Comes
Celestial Navigation
Saint Maybe
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Morgan's Passing
The Tin Can Tree
Ladder of Years

2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced

Congratulations to the following Knopf Doubleday authors who have been shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Anne Tyler, author of A Spool of Blue Thread; Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life; Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island; and Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways.

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