Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr (born Cleveland, Ohio) is an American fiction writer. He majored in history at Bowdoin College and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. His 2002 collection of short stories The "Shell Collector" won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, and the Ohioana Book Award. Many of the stories take place Africa and New Zealand where he has worked and lived.

In a 2004 online interview for the Washington Post, Doerr mentioned that his next work may involve occupied France during World War II and their subversive use of radios against the Nazis. The struggles in writing this book are documented in his newest book, a non-fiction memoir entitled "Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World." This book was published by Scribner in the US in June 2007 and will be published by Fourth Estate in the UK in 2008. [http://www.granta.com/authors/3820] He also writes a column on science books for the Boston Globe.

Doerr is married with twin sons and lives in Boise, Idaho. He is the current writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho [http://www.arts.idaho.gov/writers/current.aspx] .

Bibliography

*The Shell Collector: Stories (2002)
*About Grace: A Novel (2004)
*Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (2007)


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