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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Reins
Emerged
Held
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Women

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