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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Birth: | 25th October, 1941 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 19 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons. The former two were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the third won it. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
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