Clock Dance

Anne Tyler. was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons,. The Accidental Tourist. , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. , Ladder of Years. , Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread. , Vinegar Girl. and Clock Dance. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons. ; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread. was a Sunday Times. bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.