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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He served as guest editor for the 2019 Best American Short Stories, which will be released in October.


The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

Anthony Doerr Reflects on His Long History Deciphering the Literary Puzzles of a Postmodern Masterpiece
March 20, 2025  By Anthony Doerr
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Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

“Wait, dog point of view wasn’t allowed?”
September 30, 2019  By Anthony Doerr
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