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By putting one of our authors on the 'Hotspot' we hope to give you and your reading group the chance to have all those burning questions you might have, answered by the authors themselves - we can't imagine a more direct way of uncovering an author's motivations and intentions!

Anne Tyler is our brand new hotspot author. We welcome her into the spotlight to answer the questions you sent about her writing, inspirations and her new novel The Amateur Marriage.

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her 16th novel; her 11th, Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Read Anne Tylers' Q and A session for a remarkable insight into her motivations for writing the story and a greater understanding or her sources of inspiration.

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Anne Tyler  
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Q & A
Our author question and answer section will give you and your reading group the chance to put forward questions which might arise during the course of a session to the author. As well as offering the opportunity to contribute to the website it is the quickest way to receive a direct and clear-cut response.

Thank you for all the interesting and thought provoking questions which you sent in to our hotspot author, we have selected some of the most inspiring and frequently asked questions.

To read Anne Tylers' responses to these questions CLICK HERE

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May 04

 
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  Future Hot Spot Authors
      July 04
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  Past Hot Spot Authors
  January 03
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Chloe Hooper for A Child's Book of True Crime  
      March 03
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Bo Caldwell for The Distant Land of My Father    
      May 03
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Carol Goodman for The Lake of Dead Languages    
      July 03
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Mary Lawson for Crow Lake    
      September 03
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Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time    
      November 03
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Karin Slaughter for Kisscut    
      January 04
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Sebastian Faulks for Birdsong    
      March 04
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Elizabeth Bergs for True to Form    
 
 
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