WRITER

Anne Tyler

1941 - Today

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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Tyler has received more than 807,393 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Anne Tyler is the 3,195th most popular writer (up from 3,438th in 2019), the 4,059th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,540th in 2019) and the 344th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Breathing Lessons
Fiction, Married people, Funeral rites and ceremonies
1988
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Fiction, Death, Runaway husbands in fiction
1982
The Accidental Tourist
Death, Psychological fiction, Psychology
1985
2004
If Morning Ever Comes
Fiction, Young men, Family
1964
The amateur marriage
Fiction, Runaway teenagers, Married people
My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday. From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences.-Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, Anne Tyler captures the nuances of everyday life with telling precision and sly humour.
2004

Page views of Anne Tylers by language

Over the past year Anne Tyler has had the most page views in the with 80,289 views, followed by German (6,393), and Russian (6,080). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (367.86%), Latin (63.04%), and Greek (44.51%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Tyler ranks 3,195 out of 7,302. Before her are Ildefonso Falcones, Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, Sigurd Hoel, Tiziano Terzani, and C. S. Forester. After her are José Giovanni, Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, Caspar Barlaeus, and Giovanni Battista Giraldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Anne Tyler ranks 249. Before her are Steve Cropper, Randall Collins, Vitaly Solomin, Vladimir Lyakhov, Georges Heylens, and Desmond Dekker. After her are George Clinton, George Pell, Roberto Calasso, Lynne Cheney, Sally Kirkland, and Silvio Moser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 4,059 out of 20,380. Before her are Gene Amdahl (1922), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Kate Walsh (1967), Robert Smith (1757), James Mangold (1963), and James Hillman (1926). After her are Jane Badler (1953), Margaux Hemingway (1954), Larry Clark (1943), Burl Ives (1909), David Koresh (1959), and George Crumb (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anne Tyler ranks 344. Before her are Steve Berry (1955), Henrietta Szold (1860), Mike Mentzer (1951), Marianne Williamson (1952), Edward Gorey (1925), and Henry Kuttner (1915). After her are Jim Carroll (1949), Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), and Gregory Benford (1941).

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