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Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler 1941-, American novelist, b. Minneapolis. Often set in the American South and frequently in and around Baltimore, Md., her fiction, which is marked by wit and perception, portrays vivid characters involved in ordinary human life, particularly family relationships. Among her novels are A... Read more |
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Royall Tyler
Royall Tyler 1757-1826, American jurist, author, and playwright, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1776. He served in the colonial army during the American Revolution and later in the suppression of Shays's Rebellion. Tyler was admitted to the bar in 1780; he practiced law in Maine, later in Massachusetts,... Read more |
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Number One
Number One, novel by Dos Passos, published in 1943. It is the second volume in the trilogy that also includes Adventures of a Young Man and The Grand Design.Tyler Spotswood is secretary and spokesman for Chuck Crawford, Southern politician and demagogic propagandist of a movement based on his... Read more |
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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu , c.978-1031?, Japanese novelist, court figure at the height of the Heian period (795-1185). Known also as Lady Murasaki, she is celebrated as the author of the romantic novel Genji-Monogatari [tale of Genji], one of the first great works of fiction to be written in Japanese. It... Read more |
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Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry 1969– Playwright, actor, director Failed Theater Ventures Almost Derailed Career Found Success with “Change” Gave Birth to Madea Selected plays Sources Perhaps not as famous as Americaȁ... Read more |
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Shane
SHANE USA, 1953 Director:George Stevens Production:Paramount Pictures; Technicolor, 35mm; running time: 118 minutes. Released 1953. Oscar for Best Cinematography-Color, 1953. Producer:George Stevens; associate producer:Ivan Moffat; ... Read more |
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Ralph Tyler
TYLER, RALPH W. (1902–1994) Ralph W. Tyler's long and illustrious career in education resulted in major contributions to the policy and practice of American schooling. His influence was especially felt in the field of testing, where he transformed the idea of measurement into a grander... Read more |
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Tyler
Tyler city (1990 pop. 75,450), seat of Smith co., E Tex.; inc. 1850. In the heart of the rich East Texas oil field, Tyler has refineries and other oil-based industries. The administrative headquarters of various oil companies are there, and the city has diverse manufacturing. Although its... Read more |
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John Tyler
John Tyler 1790-1862, 10th President of the United States, b. Charles City co., Va. Early Career Educated at the College of William and Mary, he studied law under his father, John Tyler (1747-1813), governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811, and was admitted (1809) to the bar. A state legislator... Read more |
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Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore 1936-, American actress, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Although she began her career as a dancer, Moore's success came on with television, first as the secretary on "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1959), then as the costar of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-66), and finally with ... Read more |
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Anne Tyler: family novelist with a twist.
...fill the novels of Anne Tyler, who might be described...out in Tyler's novels as traditionalists...one or two books by Tyler, I didn't really...hooked. Although Tyler would not be considered...drawn back ... |
 "The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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EVERYDAY BRILLIANCE ANNE TYLER'S LATEST IS A QUIETLY BEAUTIFUL STORY OF...
...sets off a series of small events that upend the sedate retirement...this were the first time an Anne Tyler novel had ever been read within...supplied a handy analogy. Anne Tyler books are the "Lazy Rivers" of ... |
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UNHAPPY UNION NOVELIST ANNE TYLER'S NEW 'MARRIAGE' WEARS...
...Special To The News Anne Tyler's sixteenth novel, The Amateur Marriage...marriage. Even Tyler's buoyant prose...frequent quarrels. Tyler skips to different...an order on the events of the Pozniak...Amateur Marriage * By ... |
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Anne Tyler: Back When We Were Grownups.(Book review)
Anne Tyler Back When We Were Grownups...Pp. 309. $10.99 Anne Tyler, author of fifteen novels...devoted reader of Tyler novels. It is a novel about a middle-aged woman...Your Next Important ... |
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`Back When We Were Grownups,' by Anne Tyler; Alfred A. Knopf.(Knight Ridder...
...Tyler opens her 15th novel, "Back When We...in the way only Tyler can. Tyler trains her gift...It is a classic Anne Tyler moment. Joe's...many of Tyler's novels, our protagonist...the small, ... |
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Mismatched matrimony from Anne Tyler
...MARRIAGE BY ANNE TYLERKNOPF...wedding cake. Anne Tyler's new novel...Harbor, the novel transports us...most of her novels take place...Tyler's other novels, the Antons...orders. The ... |
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Anne Tyler.(Biography)
...unusual at his center." Anne Tyler, quoted in Washington...and short-story writer Anne Tyler. Author of the best...more than a dozen other novels, Tyler explores the motives...concerns play out at ordinary ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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MADE IN THE USA ANNE TYLER'S NEW TALE - ABOUT ASSIMMILATION AND IDENTITY - I...
...presided over 17 novels in the past...sentimentality. Tyler assumes that...momentum of the novel.The scaffolding Tyler has chosen for...the world of Anne Tyler, it will be...parts of this novel belong to ... |
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Q&A: Anne Tyler: ; 'Noah's Compass' came to author as she lay sleeping
...much read a book by Anne Tyler as you read through it. Her 18th novel, "Noah's Compass...recall about the event, an occurrence that...trouble with details, Tyler never does. Set...adult life, her novels are rife with ... |
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Everybody loves Anne Lamott - that's the problem; Fans won't give Lamott any...
...Ron Charles Reviewing a novel by Anne Lamott is like being asked...But reading her new novel, "Blue Shoe," hints...regurgitation of themes and events; after all, the comic...s a kind of low-cal Anne Tyler ... |
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