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Authors Anne Tyler

Diana Walker

Tyler’s favored characters are not slow-witted so much as quietly subversive, refusing to behave as others wish them to behave. They tend to seem, or to be, sexless, with the defiance of overgrown children.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Joyce Carol Oates New York Review of Books 2004
Anne Tyler’s stories are set in Baltimore, a city which many readers will neither know nor feel guilty about not knowing.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books John Sutherland London Review of Books 1992
Like the Rabbit novels of John Updike, her books expertly render a familiar world in which our own observations are played back to us, slightly magnified, and with an enhanced clarity.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Robert Towers New York Review of Books 1988

My Baltimore neighbor Anne Tyler and I are maybe the only two writers left who actually write with a fountain pen. She made the remark that there’s something about the muscular movement of putting down script on the paper that gets her imagination back in the track where it was.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review John Barth The Paris Review 1985
She loves her characters, but her ploy is to demonstrate that any assumption about them, favourable or not, is likely to be wrong.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books Robert Taubman London Review of Books 1982