Part one of term paper
American novelist and short-story writer, whose keen ear for dialogue and life-like characters have won critical acclaim. Several of Tyler's novels focus on loneliness, isolation, human interactions of eccentric middle-class people living in disunited families. was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but grew up in North Carolina, as the daught ...

Part two of term paper
... Columbia University. Before settling in Baltimore Tyler was the Russian bibliographer at Duke University and worked in the law library of McGill University. As a writer Tyler made her debut with If Morning Ever Comes in 1964, depicting a young man returning from Columbia to North Carolina and attempting to find his own way under family expectations. It was followed by The Tin Can Tree, and A Slipping-Down Life. From 1967 Tyler worked as a full-time writer. She won in 1977 an award from the Americ ...