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· Background:
Born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota as the daughter of an industrial chemist and a social worker. Tyler spent much of her youth in rural areas of North Carolina living among various Quaker communities before the family finally settled down in Raleigh. These years formed the background for her Southern literary flavour which can be seen in the settings of her fiction. Being asked about the writer or work that had the biggest influence on her writing, she replied: "A major influence on my writing was reading Eudora Welty` s short stories at age fourteen. It wasn't till then that I realised that the kind of people I saw all around me could be fit subjects for literature."
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