![]() ![]() Like the equally prolific John Updike, Tyler's subject has been the everyday lives of middle-class America over more than half a century, her writing an attempt, to borrow Updike's phrase, "to give the mundane its beautiful due". And I thought, why not?" The same answer she gave to her husband when he asked her to marry him. Literary editors and journalists had given up even inquiring if she might grant an interview – why has she agreed now? ![]() ![]() ![]() Her reluctance to submit to the demands of today's publicity machine means that any newspaper feature (there are remarkably few) inevitably compares her to the reclusive Salinger.īut when we meet, on a sunny spring morning in Kensington, it's hard to imagine anyone less like the irascible Salinger with her silver fringe, upright posture and smiling eyes, she radiates equanimity, friendliness and goodness, if that doesn't sound too Tylerish. Before the publication of her latest novel, The Beginner's Goodbye, she hadn't given a face-to-face interview for almost 40 years – and before that she gave only two. ![]()
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