Anthony Doerr

Author

Anthony Doerr is an American author whose novels and short stories are distinguished by their lyrical prose, their scientific curiosity, and their profound exploration of how human lives are connected across time and distance. His novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became one of the most acclaimed... and beloved novels of the twenty-first century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973, Doerr studied History at Bowdoin College and received an MFA from Bowling Green State University. He has lived in various places, including Rome as a fellow at the American Academy, and now lives in Boise, Idaho. His short story collections — The Shell Collector (2002) and Memory Wall (2010) — established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary precision and imagination. His first novel, About Grace (2004), explored a hydrologist's premonitory dreams. Four Seasons in Rome (2007) was a memoir about living in Italy with his newborn twin sons. All the Light We Cannot See (2014) was his masterpiece — a novel following Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan conscripted into the Nazi war machine, whose paths converge in Saint-Malo during the Allied bombing of 1944. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize, spent over three years on the New York Times bestseller list, and was adapted into a Netflix limited series. It is a book of remarkable beauty, tenderness, and structural brilliance. Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) was equally ambitious — a novel spanning from the fifteenth-century siege of Constantinople to a spaceship in the future, connected by an ancient Greek text. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award. The audiobook editions of Doerr's novels are outstanding, with narrators and full-cast performances that capture the beauty and intricacy of his prose. His books and audiobooks are essential for anyone who loves literary fiction that is both intellectually ambitious and profoundly moving. Read more Show less