Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic, recognized for fully developed characters and accurate detail. She is best known for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons, and the last of these won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989. Her later work includes A Spool of Blue Thread, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead by the Side of the Road, longlisted for the same prize in 2020.