南方女作家安妮·泰勒(Anne Tyler,1941—)在当今美国文坛享有极高声誉,她获得过普利策奖、珍妮特·海丁格·卡夫卡美国女作家小说奖以及多次获得福克纳奖、美国国家图书奖的提名。泰勒获得的众多荣誉,与其鲜明的创作主题是分不开的。与福克纳等南方作家类似,家庭问题是泰勒作品关注的重心。但是泰勒并不似奥康纳、韦尔蒂等女作家选用了略显诡异与阴暗的创作风格,其作品往往采用平淡或黑色 Anne Tyler (1941-), a Southern female writer, enjoys a very high reputation in the American literary world today. She won the Pulitzer Prize, Janet Hedinginger Kafka American Female Novelist Prize, Kerner Award, the United States National Book Award nomination. The many honors Taylor has gained are inseparable from his distinctive creative theme. Similar to southern writers such as Faulkner, family issues are the focus of Taylor’s work. However, Taylor does not like O’Connor, Weier Di and other female writers use a slightly strange and gloomy creative style, their works are often plain or black