I'm a big fan of Anne Tyler and am reading her new novel, "Digging to America." I looked up references to Mount Washington and Roland Park and discovered that they're actual neighborhoods in Baltimore. Do her other novels, like Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Breathing Lessons, Accidental Tourist, and The Amateur Marriage, include recognizable Baltimore locations? What are they?
Also, does Anne Tyler ever, ever, ever give public appearances in Baltimore? (I know she never does book tours and almost never does interviews.) Thanks!
2006-07-13 05:00:33 · 2 answers · asked by mistersato 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There's a train station in "A Patchwork Planet" that does indeed actually exist in Baltimore. That's the only Tyler novel I've read so I don't know about any others.
2006-07-13 05:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by dropkick_murphy9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read all of Anne Tyler's novels, and although I've never been to Baltimore, I feel like I have been an on-again, off-again resident because of Tyler's fictional world. I had a friend who grew up there and said Tyler captured the whole city's atmosphere and specific places (especially Roland Park area) remarkably well in her fiction.
As far as I know, Tyler is fairly reclusive and doesn't participate in official public appearances.
A pretty good, but concise biography of Tyler along with a listing of additional sources is at http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/atyler.htm
Another sketch of her is at http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1115823,00.html
Happy vicarious travels through Baltimore!
2006-07-13 20:55:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋