Anne Tyler

(Wikipedia) - Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist.
Tyler is the eldest of four children. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina, including in Raleigh, North Carolina. She didn't attend a school until she was 11 and this unorthodox upbringing enabled her to view 'the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise'. ... Tyler resides in Baltimore, Maryland, where most of her novels are set, often crossing decades in a family's life. Continued