Anthony Doerr | |
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.jpg) Doerr in July 2015 | |
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Bowdoin College (AB) Bowling Green State University (MFA) |
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Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novelAll the Light We Cannot See, which won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Doerr grew up inCleveland, Ohio,[1] He attendedUniversity School inHunting Valley, an eastern Cleveland suburb, graduating in 1991. He majored in history atBowdoin College inBrunswick, Maine, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA fromBowling Green State University inBowling Green.[2]
Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories calledThe Shell Collector (2002). His first novel,About Grace, was released in 2004. His memoir,Four Seasons in Rome, was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories,Memory Wall, was published in 2010. Doerr's second novel,All the Light We Cannot See, is set in occupiedFrance duringWorld War II and was published in 2014. He laboriously worked on writing it for a decade in hisdowntown Boise office.[3]
It received significant critical acclaim and was a finalist for theNational Book Award for Fiction.[4] The book was aNew York Times bestseller, and was named by the newspaper as a notable book of 2014.[5] It won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. It was the runner-up for the 2015Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction[6] and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction.[7] “It’s hard to think that I really belong on that list (he's the first Idahoan to win but a handful of writers includingErnest Hemingway andToni Morrison have ties toIdaho),” he told theIdaho Statesman. “I really haven’t had a chance to understand what this means. It’s so overwhelming. My editor worked with a bunch of great writers and told me that whenFrank McCourt (‘Angela’sAshes’ in 1997) won he told her, ‘Now you know the first line of my obituary.’ ... that’s true. It’s this thing that will be forever attached to my name. You know, ‘Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Doerr does something stupid at a BSU football game.’ ...Can’t do that anymore.”[3]
Doerr writes a column on science books forThe Boston Globe and is a contributor toThe Morning News, an online magazine. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Writer in Residence for the state of Idaho.[8][9] Doerr's third novel,Cloud Cuckoo Land, has three story lines, scattered throughout time: 13-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.[10]Cloud Cuckoo Land was released September 28, 2021. It was shortlisted for the 2021National Book Award for Fiction.[11]
Doerr lives in the highlands ofBoise,Idaho with his wife Shauna Eastman and their two twin sons. He has coachedflag football and he and his sons ski and hike.[3]
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