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Anthony Doerr

Biography

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections MEMORY WALL and THE SHELL COLLECTOR, the novel ABOUT GRACE and the memoir FOUR SEASONS IN ROME. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Books by Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr - Fiction

Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” CLOUD CUCKOO LAND is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship --- of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Anthony Doerr’s new novel is the story of two children: a blind French girl who flees Nazi-occupied Paris in 1940 to live with an eccentric great-uncle in the walled city of Saint-Malo, and a German boy whose talent for fixing radios earns him a spot at the National Political Institutes of Education, a training school for Hitler Youth. 

About Grace
by Anthony Doerr - Fiction

When Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to faultless as any writer --- young or vastly experienced --- could wish for." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Discover Prize, Princeton's Hodder Fellowship, and two O. Henrys, and shared the Young Lions Award. Now he has written one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling first novels of recent times.