Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of five books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory Wall and All the Light We Cannot See.

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." In 2015 All the Light We Cannot See was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.