If Morning Ever Comes

15. Would you classify this as an optimistic novel? A realistic novel?

About the Author

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raliegh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University, and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. This is her first novel; her eleventh,

Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.