Anne Tyler

Anne
Tyler

Anne Tyler is the author of twenty bestselling novels. Her most recent, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime’s achievement in books, as well as being nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as ‘the greatest novelist writing in English’.

Anne Tyler is the author of twenty bestselling novels. Her most recent, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime’s achievement in books, as well as being nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as ‘the greatest novelist writing in English’.

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