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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Homesick
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Dinner

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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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