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Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical/Historical note ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Series I: Typescript: "The accidental tourist" ...... 5 Series II: Typescript: "Breathing lessons" ...... 5 Series III: Newspaper and magazine articles ...... 6 Series IV: Miscelleanous ...... 15
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Summary Information
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester Creator: Tyler, Anne Title: Anne Tyler papers ID: D.365 Date [inclusive]: 1958-1998 Physical Description: 4 boxes Language of the English Material:
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Anne Tyler Papers, D.365, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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Biographical/Historical note
American novelist and short story writer Anne Tyler was born the eldest of four children to Lloyd Parry Tyler, an industrial chemist, and Phyllis Mahon Tyler, a social worker, on October 25, 1941. Although born in Minnesota, she spent her early childhood in various Quaker communities throughout the mountains of North Carolina. When she was 11, the Tyler family settled in Raleigh, NC, and Tyler attended her first large, public school system. At age 19, in 1961, she graduated from Duke University, where she studied with writer Reynolds Price. She did post-graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Tyler subsequently worked as a Russian bibliographer for Duke University Library and in the law library of McGill University before moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1967. She married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Modarressi (1931-1997) in 1963 at age 21, with whom she has two daughters, Tezh and Mitra.
To date, Tyler has written more than twenty novels, including: If Morning Ever Comes (1964), The Tin Can Tree (1965), A Slipping-Down Life (1970), The Clock Winder (1972), Celestial Navigation (1974), Searching for Caleb (1976), Earthly Possessions (1977), Morgan's Passing (1980), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), Breathing Lessons (1989), Saint Maybe (1991), Ladder of Years (1995), A Patchwork Planet (1998), Back When We Were Grownups - Page 3- anne_tyler_papers (2001), The Amateur Marriage (2003), and Digging to America (2006). She has published one story for children, Tumble Tower (1993), illustrated by her daughter Mitra Modarressi, and has penned many short stories, which have been printed in such publications as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, McCall's, Harper's, and The Archive. Tyler has also edited three anthologies, all in partnership with Susan Ravenel: The Best American Short Stories 1983 (1983), Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South (1996), and Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005).
Tyler has received numerous awards for her work. While at Duke, she twice received the Anne Flexner Award for Creative Writing. In 1977, she won an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "literary excellence and promise of important work to come." For Morgan's Passing (1980), she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman through the University of Rochester's Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English. In 1986, Tyler was awarded the National Book Critics Award for The Accidental Tourist. In 1989, her novel Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Tyler was the only woman featured on Time magazine's 1990 list of the ten best novels of the decade for her The Accidental Tourist. Additionally, six of Tyler's novels have been adapted for film: The Accidental Tourist (1988), A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Breathing Lessons (1994), Saint Maybe (1998), Earthly Possessions (1999), and Back When We Were Grownups (2004). The latter four were adapted for television only.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rush Rhees Library Second Floor, Room 225 Rochester, NY 14627-0055 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.rochester.edu/spaces/rbscp
Restrictions on Access The Anne Tyler Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition note The Anne Tyler Papers, together with an extensive collection of Anne Tyler first editions and other Tyler-related publications, are a gift of Mrs. Jan Gleason, longtime and generous Friend of the University of Rochester Libraries.
Restrictions on Use In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Authors, American • American literature • Novels • Articles • Tyler, Anne
Collection Inventory
Series I: Typescript: "The accidental tourist" Title/Description Instances "The accidental tourist" Box 1 Physical Description: Photocopy of 1985 first edition typescript. Half-title page and page 1 signed by Anne Tyler
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Series II: Typescript: "Breathing lessons" Title/Description Instances "Breathing lessons" Box 2
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Physical Description: Photocopy of 1988 typescript. Plastic spiral paper bound. Stamp on cover: "Submission Book of the Month Club Inc."
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Series III: Newspaper and magazine articles Title/Description Instances Articles/works written by Anne Tyler Box 3 Folder 1
"A visit with Eudora Welty", The New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1980
Letter to "Robie" [Macauley, executive editor, Houghton- Mifflin publishing company], September 23, 1985 Scope and Contents
Typed letter signed, 1 page. [Declining an invitation to the Best American Short Stories party]
Reviews of Anne Tyler's work Box 3 Folder 2
"A state of continual crisis", A. G. Mojtabai, The New York Times Book Review, March 23, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of Morgan's Passing
"Funny, wise and true", Benjamin De Mott, The New York Times Book Review, March 14, 1982 Scope and Contents
Review of Dinner at The Homesick Restaurant]
"Life is a foreign country", Larry McMurtry, The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of The Accidental Tourist
"Anne Tyler: as stylish as apple pie", Dan Cryer, Democrat and Chronicle: Books, September 15, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of The Accidental Tourist
"Throwing caution to the whim", Lee Lescaze, The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 1985
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Review of The Accidental Tourist
"Leaving home", John Updike, The New Yorker, October 28, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of The Accidental Tourist
"Southern comfort", Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books, November 7, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler and In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
"Breathing lessons", Publisher's Weekly, July 1, 1988 Scope and Contents
Review of the novel
"Mid-life ups and downs", Lee Lescaze, The Wall Street Journal, September 6, 1988 Scope and Contents
Review of Breathing Lessons
"A fresh breath of Anne Tyler", Robert Wilson, USA Today, September 9, 1988 Scope and Contents
Review of Breathing Lessons
"About Maggie, who tried too hard", Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review, September 11, 1988 Scope and Contents
Review of Breathing Lessons
"New life for old," Cathleen Schine, The New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1995 Scope and Contents
Review of Ladder of Years
"Odd jobs," Carol Shields, The New York Times Book Review, April 19, 1998
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Review of A Patchwork Planet
"Status under siege," James Bowman, The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 1998 Scope and Contents
Review of A Patchwork Planet
Reviews written by Anne Tyler Box 3 Folder 3 Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
"Please don't call it Persia", The New York Times Book Review, February 18, 1979 Scope and Contents
Review of Identity Card by F. M. Esfandiary
"Unlikely heroines", The New York Times Book Review, May 6, 1979 Scope and Contents
Reviews of Sanjo by Evelyn Wilde Mayerson and Favours by Bernice Rubens
"Two novels: growing up", The New York Times Book Review, June 17, 1979 Scope and Contents
Reviews of Wild Oats by Jacob Epstien and The Ballad of T. Bantula by Kit Reed
"Two sets of bleak lives", The New York Times Book Review, July 29, 1979 Scope and Contents
Reviews of Where the Cherries End Up by Gail Henley and Days by Mary Robinson
"European plots and people", The New York Times Book Review, September 16, 1979 Scope and Contents
Review of From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
"Novel with notes", The New York Times Book Review, October 21, 1979
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Review of Love, etc. by Bel Kaufman
"Woman coping", The New York Times Book Review, February 10, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of A Woman's Age by Rachel Billington
"Everyday events", The New York Times Book Review, March 9, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of A Matter of Feeling by Janine Boissard
"The return of Sarah Stern", The New York Times Book Review, August 3, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of The School Book by Anne Bernays
"An honorable heroine", The New York Times Book Review, September 14, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of Rich Rewards by Alice Adams
"A good family", The New York Times Book Review, October 12, 1980 Scope and Contents
Review of Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott
"The stoics and trudgers", The New York Times Book Review, March 8, 1981 Scope and Contents
Review of American Rose by Julia Markus
"Life in an ingrown household", The New York Times Book Review, January 17, 1982 Scope and Contents
Review of Against the Stream by James Hanley
"A bigamist's daughter", The New York Times Book Review, February 21, 1982
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Review of the novel by Alice McDermott
"Ordinary family, with a difference", The New York Times Book Review, March 28, 1982 Scope and Contents
Review of White Horses by Alice Hoffman
"The complexities of ordinary life", The New York Times Book Review, September 19, 1982 Scope and Contents
Review of Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
"The growing up of Lily Shields", The New York Times Book Review, October 1, 1982 Scope and Contents
Review of My Old Sweetheart by Susanna Moore
"No fond return of love", The New York Times Book Review, February 13, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of the novel by Barbara Pym
"A widow's tale", The New York Times Book Review, February 20, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of Praisesong For the Widow by Paule Marshall
"Mother lived well", The New York Times Book Review, April 24, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of Natural Victims by Isabel Eberstadt
"Home folks at one another's throats", The New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of The Feud by Thomas Berger
"Writers in place and writers in motion", The New York Times Book Review, May 29, 1983
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Review of Mississippi Writers Talking by John Griffin Jones and Black Women Writers at Work edited by Claudia Tate
"Modern Baptists," The New York Times Book Review, July 31, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of the novel by James Wilcox
"The Ledfords and all of us", The New York Times Book Review, November 6, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of Generations by John Egerton
"The wounds of war", The New York Times Book Review, July 1, 1984 Scope and Contents
Review of Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
"The holes in Sara's life", The New York Times Book Review, August 5, 1984 Scope and Contents
Review of In Another Country by Susan Kenney
"Go east, young man", The New Republic, January 21, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of Equal Distance by Brad Leithauser
"A solitary life is still worth living", The New York Times Book Review, February 3, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
"Mothers in the city", The New Republic, April 29, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
"Come to Canada", The New Republic, May 13, 1985
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Review of Home Truths: Sixteen Stories by Mavis Gallant
"Travel", The New York Times Book Review, June 2, 1985 Scope and Contents
A series of reviews written by Anne Tyler of different travel books
"Down in New Orleans", The New Republic, June 24, 1985 Scope and Contents
Reviews of Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann and The Sioux by Irene Handl
"Spark files", The New Republic, October 14, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
"Spots of time", The New Republic, November 18, 1985 Scope and Contents
Review of Midair by Frank Conroy
"Daughter's-eye view", The New Republic, April 21, 1986 Scope and Contents
Review of Collaborators by Janet Kauffman
"The mission", The New Republic, April 6, 1987 Scope and Contents
Review of The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
"If it's not Russian, he hates it", The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1987 Scope and Contents
Review of The Frigate Pallada by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
"Up from misery", The New Republic, July 11, 1988 Scope and Contents
Review of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts by Carolyn Chute
"Master of moments", The New Republic, February 6, 1989 - Page 12- anne_tyler_papers
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Review of Selected Stories by Andre Dubus (entire magazine issue, page 41)
"Burmese days", The New Republic, March 27, 1989 Scope and Contents
Review of John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins] (entire magazine issue, page 35)
"Class wars", The New Republic, November 13, 1989 Scope and Contents
Review of Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder] (entire magazine issue, page 40)
"The outsider may be you", The New York Times Book Review, March 18, 1990 Scope and Contents
Review of Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner
Articles and other materials mentioning Anne Tyler Box 3 Folder 4
"A collection of discoveries," Maureen Howard, The New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1980 Scope and Contents
Article quotes a profile of Eudora Welty written by Anne Tyler, 2 pages
"A writer's first readers", Helen Benedict, The New York Times Book Review, February 6, 1983 Scope and Contents
Article mentions Anne Tyler's particular privacy about her work
"The best American short stories 1983, edited by Anne Tyler, with Shannon Ravenel," Houghton Mifflin, 1983 Scope and Contents
Publisher's flier, signed by Anne Tyler
"Author price guides", by Allen Ahearn and Pat Ahearn, Quill and Brush [Booksellsers], Bethesda, MD, June 1985 Physical Description: 2 pages w/ accompanying explanatory pages
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Dealer estimates for Anne Tyler 1st ed. prices
"Rights", Paul Nathan, Publishers Weekly, September 19, 1986 Scope and Contents
Mentions Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and Anne Tyler's agents
"Magic numbers, magic carpet!", edited by William Goldstein, Publishers Weekly, June 24, 1988 Scope and Contents
Concerning the release of Breathing Lessons
"Papers in Alaska, Pa., Illinois lead Pulitzers", Democrat and Chronicle, March 31, 1989 Scope and Contents
Announces Anne Tyler's Pulitzer for Breathing Lessons
"Cathy", January 6, 1990 (?) Scope and Contents
Comic strip of Cathy as she walks out of a showing of The Accidental Tourist
"National Book Critics circle awards" Scope and Contents
Announcing Anne Tyler's award for The Accidental Tourist, magazine clipping
"Bev Chaney Jr. Books," Ossining, NY, Antiquarian Bookman, September 22, 1986 Scope and Contents
Dealer listing of secured Anne Tyler items for sale
"Taghi Modarressi, novelist, dies at 65," The New York Times, [May 1997], undated Scope and Contents
Obituary for Anne Tyler's husband
"Taghi Modarressi, child psychiatrist", John Rivera, The Baltimore Sun, April 26, 1997
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Obituary for Anne Tyler's husband (online database print- out)
"Knopf takes two Pulitzer prizes; Anne Tyler wins fiction award" Scope and Contents
Announcing the award for Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist
Family of Anne Tyler Box 3 Folder 5
"Return to Iran," Taghi Modarressi [husband of Anne Tyler], The New York Times Book Review, August 14, 1983 Scope and Contents
Review of Isfahan is Half the World by Sayyed Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh
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Series IV: Miscelleanous Title/Description Instances Essays by Anne Tyler Box 4 Folder 1
"The Galax," Freshman Writing: Essays by students in English 1 and 2 at Duke University 1958-1959, Duke University Physical Description: Pages 27-29
"A visit with Eudora Welty," Chicago: Pressworks Scope and Contents
8 [unnumbered] pages, 7 1/2" x 6", "This essay first appeared in the November 2, 1980 issue of The New York Times Book Review, to whom grateful acknowledgement for permission to reprint is made. The edition is limited to 100 copies, none of which is for sale."
"Anne Tyler remembers her feelings about Borzois," The Borzois Reader, June 1, 1990 Scope and Contents
Knopf, Vol. 2, No. 2, page 53. A special 75th Anniversary issue honoring Alfred A. Knopf, publisher.
Materials on the film, "The accidental tourist" Box 4 Folder 2
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Physical Description: Typescript, photocopy, 1 page
Photographs, black & white still shots with captions from film Scope and Contents
4 photographs showing William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis
The cast and credits for the film Scope and Contents
Typescript, photocopy, 9 pages
"The accidental tourist" production information Physical Description: Typescript, photocopy, 23 pages
Materials on the book, Tumble tower Box 4 Folder 3
Photographs, black & white of Anne Tyler and Mitra Modarressi Physical Description: 2 photographs
"Mom's the word," Entertainment Weekly, feature, May 7, 1993 Scope and Contents
'My mother, My coauthor,' about Anne Tyler and Mitra Modarressi, photocopy, 1 page
"Tumble tower," Kirkus Reviews , June 15, 1993 Physical Description: Photocopy, 1 page
"Tumble tower," Publisher's Weekly, review, June 28, 1993 Physical Description: Photocopy with illustration, 1 page
"Anne Tyler teams up with her daughter to publish first children's book," Orchard Books Scope and Contents
Official description from publisher, typescript, undated, 2 pages
"Biographies," biographies of Anne Tyler and Mitra Modarressi Physical Description: Typescript, photocopy, 1 page
Materials on Festschrift For Reynolds Price Box 4 Folder 4
Correspondence from Anne Tyler to Stuart Wright (owner/ publisher Palaemon Press Limited) , September 10, 1982- October 9, 1982 Physical Description: 2 letters
"Reynolds Price reads 'The anniversary' to twenty-nine freshman English students from the class of '62," poem by Anne Tyler
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Physical Description: Typescript, photocopy, 1 page
"Reynolds Price reads 'The anniversary' to twenty-nine freshman English students from the class of '62," printer's proof Physical Description: "OK - at" in red pen, 2 pages
For Reynolds Price, February 1, 1983 Scope and Contents
"Privately printed," copy 30 of 150. Tributes by Fred Chappell, James Dickey, Anne Tyler, and Eudora Welty, with signatures, 8 [unnumbered] pages
Materials on Festschrift for Eudora Welty Box 4 Folder 5
Letter from Anne Tyler to Stuart Wright, July 16, 1983 Physical Description: 1 page
"To Eudora Welty, for showering us with gold," poem by Anne Tyler Physical Description: Typescript, photocopy, with original pencil and red pen edits
"To Eudora Welty, or showering us with gold," poem Physical Description: Typescript
Letter from Anne Tyler to Stuart Wright, January 8, 1984
"To Eudora Welty, for showering us with gold," poem Physical Description: Printer's proof, "OK - aT" in red pen
Eudora Welty: a tribute, April 13, 1984 Scope and Contents
Contains "To Eudora Welty, For Showering Us with Gold," copy 42 of 75, with signed tributes by Cleanth Brooks, Bernard Malamud, William Maxwell, Reynolds Price, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wilbur, 31 [unnumbered] pages.
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