A lopsided pottery house sits on a high shelf in Anne Tyler’s writing room. The handicraft belonged to the novelist’s mother, who made it in her retirement home as her mind was starting to fade. Ms.

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

There’s a reason why Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler (The Accidental Tourist) is one of America’s most-read authors. She combines emotional complexity with wholly relatable material in observational ...

Anne Tyler assures us that there’s nothing special about the family around whom she has built her latest novel. “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks,” she writes. “None of them was ...

Anne Tyler uses wit and a homely minor key to reel the reader into a gripping domestic saga A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler, Knopf, 368 pages, $25.95 Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne ...