Anne Tyler is a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. Three Days in June is her 25th novel, and it displays her interest in fraught family dynamics, in-depth characterization, detailed realism, and the passage of time that characterizes much of Tyler’s work. Her novels have been praised by readers and critics alike, and she has been both a nominee for and a recipient of numerous awards. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988) were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. The Accidental Tourist also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985, and Ladder of Years (1995) and Digging to America (2006) were both finalists for the Orange Prize. A Spool of Blue Thread (2015) was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Tyler was born into a Quaker family that moved around the Midwest and the South throughout her childhood.