Anthony Doerr
Author of All the Light We Cannot See
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
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (2007) 767 copies, 30 reviews
Afterworld [short story] 1 copy
The Deep 1 copy
The Caretaker 1 copy
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 268 copies, 4 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
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers (2019) — Contributor — 69 copies, 3 reviews
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributor — 18 copies
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- 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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