Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 22 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail," and her "rigorous and artful style" and "astute and open language."
Tyler has been compared to John Updike, to Jane Austen, and to Eudora Welty, among others.
Middag på Restaurant Hjemve er skrevet af den amerikanske forfatter Anne Tyler (f. 1941). Den udkom oprindeligt på dansk i 1983; oversat af Inge Rifbjerg.
Romanen er en skildring fra det amerikanske midtvesten i mellemkrigstiden af en enlig mor, der i skuffelse og bitterhed forpester livet for sine tre børn.
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