Anne Tyler (born 1941) is an American novelist who has set most of her fiction in Baltimore, where she has lived since the 1960s. She has published 25 novels, among them “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”, “The Accidental Tourist” and “Breathing Lessons”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989. Tyler was born in … Read more

Lauren Groff (born 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer, the author of five novels and three story collections. She is best known for “Fates and Furies” (2015), “Matrix” (2021) and the collection “Florida” (2018), and has been a finalist for the National Book Award three times. Groff was born and raised in … Read more

Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist and essayist whose loosely autobiographical fiction draws on her childhood in Antigua and her later life in the United States. Her books include the novels “Annie John”, “Lucy” and “The Autobiography of My Mother” and the book-length essay “A Small Place”. She was born Elaine Cynthia Potter … Read more

Paul Bowles (1910 to 1999) was an American novelist, short story writer, composer and translator who lived in Tangier, Morocco, for the last 52 years of his life. His first novel, “The Sheltering Sky” (1949), set in French North Africa, was a critical and popular success and remains his best-known book. Bowles was born in … Read more

Kent Haruf (1943 to 2014) was an American novelist from Colorado whose six novels are all set in and around the fictional High Plains town of Holt. He is best known for “Plainsong” (1999), a bestseller and National Book Award finalist, and for his final novel, “Our Souls at Night”, which was published after his … Read more

Walker Percy (1916 to 1990) was an American novelist and essayist whose fiction deals with alienation, faith and the limits of science in modern life. His first novel, “The Moviegoer” (1961), won the National Book Award for Fiction, and he wrote five more novels. He is especially noted for his fiction set in New Orleans. … Read more