Author

Anthony Doerr

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for All the Light We Cannot See

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Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome and Memory Wall. Doerr's short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. He has won the Rome Prize, and shared the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award with Jonathan Safran Foer. In 2007 Granta placed Doerr on its list of the "21 Best Young American novelists." Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Born1973 · Cleveland, USA

Notable works All the Light We Cannot SeeCloud Cuckoo LandAbout Grace

HonoursPulitzer Prize for Fiction (2015) · Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (2015)

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.— All the Light We Cannot See (2014)