Earthly Possessions

A Note about the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and considers herself a Southerner. She was graduated at nineteen from Duke University, where she twice won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing, and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She has done graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University and worked for a year as the Russian bibliographer at the Duke University Library. Miss Tyler has published seven novels, and her stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, McCall's, Harper's, and The Southern Review.

She is married to a psychiatrist, Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, and she and her husband now live in Baltimore, Maryland, with their two young children.