SEAN HOOKS: You’re an author, humanist, family man, and lover of the natural world. We emailed back and forth, me from Los Angeles and Anthony from Boise, Idaho, where he lives with his wife and children. On top of the Pulitzer, he’s also received the Story Prize, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. It joins his 2004 novel, About Grace his 2007 memoir, Four Seasons in Rome and two story collections - The Shell Collector (2002) and Memory Wall ( 2010 ) - to form a steadily growing body of significant work.ĭoerr was born and raised in Ohio, studied history at Bowdoin College, and earned his MFA in fiction from Bowling Green. The highly anticipated follow-up to his 2014 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning All the Light We Cannot See, is Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was released in September by Scribner. AUTHOR OF a half-dozen books now, Anthony Doerr is both a winner of prestigious awards and a fixture on the best-seller lists.
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