A spool of blue thread, 2015: t..p. (Anne Tyler) About the author (born 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina; she graduated at nineteen from Duke University; went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University; she lives in Baltimore, Maryland)
Wikipedia, August 26, 2015 (Anne Tyler; born October 25, 1941, Hennepin County, Minnesota; American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic; alma mater: Duke University; in 1963, she married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi; Tyler resides in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, where most of her novels are set; she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1983)