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Describing Archives: A Content Standard 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 anne_tyler_papers Table of Contents 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 - Page 2 - anne_tyler_papers 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 ^ Return to Table of Contents 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. ^ Return to Table of Contents 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. - Page 4- anne_tyler_papers 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. ^ Return to Table of Contents 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 ^ Return to Table of Contents Series II: Typescript: "Breathing lessons" Title/Description Instances "Breathing lessons" Box 2 - Page 5- anne_tyler_papers Physical Description: Photocopy of 1988 typescript. Plastic spiral paper bound. Stamp on cover: "Submission Book of the Month Club Inc." ^ Return to Table of Contents 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 - Page 6- anne_tyler_papers Scope and Contents 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 - Page 7- anne_tyler_papers Scope and Contents Review of A Patchwork