Editing Anne Tyler (section)

{{short description|American novelist (born 1941)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name         = Anne Tyler
| caption      = Tyler, {{Circa|2015}}
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1941|10|25| mf=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], U.S.
| occupation   = {{flatlist|
* Novelist
* short story writer
* literary critic}}
| education    = [[Duke University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Columbia University]]
| genre        = [[Literary realism]]
| notableworks = {{ublist |''[[Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant]]'' |''[[The Accidental Tourist]]''| ''[[Breathing Lessons]]''}}
| awards       = [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] for Fiction (1985)<br /> [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (1989)
| website      = {{url|www.annetyler.com}}
}}
'''Anne Tyler''' (born October 25, 1941) is an American [[novelist]], short story writer, and literary critic.  She has published twenty-five novels, including ''[[Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant]]'' (1982), ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'' (1985), and ''[[Breathing Lessons]]'' (1988).  All three were finalists for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]], and ''Breathing Lessons'' won the prize in 1989.  She has also won the [[Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize]], the [[Ambassador Book Award]], and the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]].  In 2012 she was awarded ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' Award for Literary Excellence.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Anne+Tyler+Announced+as+Winner+of+the+2012+Sunday+Times+Award+for...-a0327331082 |title= Anne Tyler Announced as Winner of the 2012 Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence |publisher=  |website= thefreelibrary.com |access-date= March 27, 2015 |archive-date= July 30, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140730030023/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Anne+Tyler+Announced+as+Winner+of+the+2012+Sunday+Times+Award+for...-a0327331082 }}</ref>  Tyler's twentieth novel, ''A Spool of Blue Thread'', was shortlisted for the [[Man Booker Prize]] in 2015, and ''Redhead By the Side of the Road'' was longlisted for the same award in 2020. 

She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail",<ref name="Pollitt, K. 1976" /> her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language."<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|author=Schine, Cathleen|date=May 7, 1995| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/07/books/new-life-for-old.html|title=New Life for Old|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=April 1, 2015}}</ref>

Tyler has been compared to [[John Updike]], [[Jane Austen]], and [[Eudora Welty]], among others.