Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr, born in Cleveland in 1973, is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Boise, Idaho. He began with the story collection The Shell Collector (2002), followed by the novel About Grace (2004), the Roman memoir Four Seasons in Rome (2007) and a second collection, Memory Wall (2010). All the Light We Cannot See (2014), which follows a blind French girl and a German boy through the Second World War, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015 and was a National Book Award finalist. Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021), braiding together fifteenth-century Constantinople, present-day Idaho and an interstellar ship, was a National Book Award finalist in its turn.