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Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but grew up in North Carolina, as the daughter of Lloyd Parry Tyler, an industrial chemist, and Phyllis Mahon Tyler, a social worker. Anne attended a small local public school at Harvard. According to a story, whenever the school's principal had to take a short leave to look after his cows, Anne was put in charge.Anne had begun to write stories by the age of seven, most of these early writings concerned "lucky, lucky girls who got to go west in covered wagons."
She graduated from the Duke University at the age of 19, Durham, North Carolina, where she twice won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing. Her first published short story, 'Laura,' appeared in Duke University's literary magazine, the Archive. She became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and did post-graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before settling in Baltimore, her home town for much of her adult life, Tyler was a bibliographer at Duke University, ordering books from the Soviet Union, and worked in the law library of McGill University. Tyler married in 1963; she and her husband have two daughters.
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