Anne Tyler

This Sunday: Spring books preview, Anne Lamott and jazz

2012-03-02 16:34:19

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This Sunday: Figment, Charles Dickens, Etgar Keret and more

2012-04-06 16:36:33

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Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor

2011-01-23 00:00:00

In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and...

Man Booker International finalists include three Americans

2011-03-29 21:34:48

John Le Carre stirs controversy trying to withdraw from prize consideration

2011-03-30 16:34:24

Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize, sparks controversy

2011-05-18 16:34:49

Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover) for Feb. 14, 2010

2010-02-14 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 36 || || 2. || First Rule by Robert...

Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Jan. 31, 2010

2010-01-31 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. || 34 || || 2. || First Rule by Robert...

'Noah's Compass' by Anne Tyler

2010-01-15 00:00:00

"Face it: we forget things every day of our lives. You're missing lots of chunks! But you don't dwell on those, now, do you?" So says the doctor to Liam Pennywell, the 60-year-old protagonist of Anne Tyler's new novel, "Noah's Compass" -- ostensibly to...

In our pages: Anne Tyler's 'Noah's Compass'

2010-01-14 21:33:32

Fiction author Hortense Calisher dies at 97

2009-01-16 00:00:00

Hortense Calisher, a prize-winning writer and former president of PEN known for her dense prose in such works of fiction as "False Entry" and "In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks," has died in New York City. She was 97. Calisher died Tuesday in...

Why we read

2009-04-26 00:00:00

There's a book I don't remember well, though I can remember precisely where I found it in my elementary school library -- three yards to the right of the door, in the middle of the third shelf from the floor. I was, and remain, a compulsive reader. Back...

Learn more about these and other authors with a Baltimore connection.

2010-04-12 14:04:08

Baltimore novelist Anne Tyler is pictured in this undated photo.

2009-12-14 00:00:00

novelist "The below-street-level path that runs alongside the creek on Deepdene Road. If you walk it early enough in the morning you have to wave a little branch in front of you to break through the spider webs, and yet it's an actual sidewalk.

2009-12-14 00:00:00