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Anthony Doerr

Author of All the Light We Cannot See

15+ Works 28,378 Members 1,206 Reviews 22 Favorited

About the Author

Anthony Doerr was born on October 27, 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory Wall, and All the Light We Cannot See. His fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in several anthologies. He has won the Barnes show more and Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Award, three Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. His novel, All the Light We Cannot See, won the Adult Fiction Award for the Indies Choice Book Awards in 2015, the International Book of the Year at the ABIA Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 2015. Anthony Doerr also won the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for this same title. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See (2014) 20,135 copies, 904 reviews
Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) — Author — 4,338 copies, 173 reviews
About Grace (2004) 1,262 copies, 41 reviews
The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) 1,018 copies, 31 reviews
Memory Wall: Stories (2010) — Author — 623 copies, 20 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2019 (2019) — Editor — 202 copies, 5 reviews
The Hunter's Wife 11 copies, 1 review
The Snake Handler (2011) 10 copies, 1 review
The Deep 1 copy

Associated Works

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contributor — 637 copies, 3 reviews
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Contributor — 525 copies, 12 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 481 copies, 4 reviews
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Contributor — 274 copies, 9 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 268 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 240 copies, 7 reviews
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 205 copies, 4 reviews
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributor — 197 copies, 5 reviews
Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2 (2007) — Contributor — 197 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 32: 2024 AD (2009) — Contributor — 150 copies, 4 reviews
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002 (2002) — Contributor — 143 copies, 1 review
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 140 copies
McSweeney's Issue 34 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Contributor — 111 copies, 2 reviews
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (2008) — Contributor — 108 copies, 1 review
The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (2009) — Juror — 101 copies
The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 79 copies, 1 review
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (2021) — Contributor — 72 copies, 6 reviews
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers (2019) — Contributor — 69 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 143: After the Fact (2018) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review
The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House (2012) — Contributor — 41 copies, 1 review
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Contributor — 38 copies
Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio (2006) — Contributor — 22 copies, 1 review
Tin House 28 (Summer 2006): Summer Reading (2006) — Contributor — 20 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Doerr, Anthony
Birthdate
1973-10-27
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Places of residence
Boise, Idaho, USA
Novelty, Ohio, USA
New Zealand
Rome, Italy
Education
Bowdoin College
Bowling Green State University
University School
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
Awards and honors
Rome Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)
Short biography
Anthony Doerr has won numerous prizes for his fiction, including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. His most recent novel, All the Light We Cannot See, was named a best book of 2014 by a number of publications, and was a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Visit him at www.anthonydoerr.com.

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really liked the book, but I was disappointed with the ending. It just kind of fizzled for me
 
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DebHudon | 903 other reviews | Dec 28, 2024 |
Saw the miniseries first and reading the book after. Beautiful and so rich. Loved this.
 
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AngelZR | 903 other reviews | Dec 27, 2024 |
David Winkler lives in Alaska and is a hydrologist and fascinated by snow. He has vivid dreams that he comes to learn are prophetic. The novel begins when David is flying from St Vincent back to the US and the reader is taken back through time to when he met Sandy, a married woman, in Alaska and they ran away to the US together, marry and have a daughter, Grace. David dreams about a terrible flood in which his daughter dies. The flood happens but he doesn't know what happened to Sandy and Grace. He spent 25 years in St Vincent, making good friends, working and trying to find out what happened to Sandy and Grace. Eventually he decides to return. Anthony Doerr describes the land and nature in a contemplative way, with a bagful of detail. Snowflakes, insects and shells all receive this treatment and places too are deeply etched. The time David spent with the daughter of a friend in the mountains of Alaska over winter is well drawn. David's actions can seem irritating and mistaken but the ending is filled with hope.… (more)
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CarolKub | 40 other reviews | Dec 24, 2024 |
Dieses Buch lag nun schon relativ lange auf meinem SUB und ich bin froh, es endlich gelesen zu haben.

Die beiden parallelen Handlungsstränge um Marie-Laure und Werner, die sich gegen Ende des Krieges in Saint-Malo treffen, haben mir ziemlich gut gefallen. Deutlich verzichtbar war für mich der dritte Handlungsstrang, der mich doch ein wenig zu sehr an das Klischee des bösen Nazis auf der Suche nach einem mythischen Gegenstand erinnert hat (das kennen wir alle schon von Indiana Jones und ohne Harrison Ford macht es weniger Spaß).

Aber die Sprache, die vielen kleinen Ideen am Rande, die Schilderung, wie Marie trotz ihrer Blindheit den Alltag meistert, das alles hat mich ungemein beeindruckt, auch wenn ich mich erst daran gewöhnen musste, in einem Roman verschiedene Zeitebenen im Wechsel zu haben, die so nahe beieinander liegen wie hier. Und sehr gelungen fand ich auch den Teil des Buches, der die Geschichten nach dem Krieg abrundete.

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Ellemir | 903 other reviews | Dec 18, 2024 |

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Rating
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