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Anthony Doerr
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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr was awarded the 2010 Story Prize for Memory Wall. His other books include The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His books have been a New York Times Notable Book, an American Library Association Book of the Year, a... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Pay attention.
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My life in 8 words: "Books on the shelves, maps on the walls."
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August 4, 2010
Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive of the launch of Memory Wall over the past few weeks!  I deeply appreciate all...
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July 25, 2010
Thanks to everyone who came out to the readings in New York!  I deeply appreciate the support.  As Katherine Anne Porter wrote...
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Memory Wall will be released on July 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jul 05, 2011
Memory Wall is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Shell Collector is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 04, 2011
The Shell Collector will be released on January 04, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Oct 24, 2010
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Jul 31, 2010
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What is your motto or maxim?
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Anthony Doerr Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Pay attention. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Sayulita, Mexico. No, Turks and Caicos. No, the Natural History Museum in Paris. No... Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Cooking Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. Running out of curiosity. Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. Hunting huckleberries in the rain with my family. Learn more about Anthony Doerr

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Oregonian, April 13, 2012
...partnerships between Tin House and PSU. This term, Charles D'Ambrosio is teaching an intensive master class on Anthony Doerr that will culminate in a public reading and interview on May 18. Doerr lives in Boise and is a regular instructor at the Tin...
SunValleyOnline.com, April 10, 2012
...River Valley and at a price that’s not prohibitive. Previous instructors include Ron Carlson, Danielle Trussoni and Anthony Doerr. The cost for the workshop is $300 for Sun Valley Center for the Arts members and $350 for nonmembers. Registration...
Guardian.co.uk, March 30, 2012
...The £30,000 Sunday Times short story award has been won in the past by the American author Anthony Doerr for his story The Deep, and by New Zealander CK Stead for Last Season's Man . Short stories Fiction Awards and prizes Ireland Europe Alison Flood ...
Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2012
...fiction. Previous winners include Edwidge Danticat, Patrick O’Keeffe, Mary Gordon, Jim Shepard, Tobias Wolff, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Anthony Doerr.  RELATED: The Story Prize finalists: Delillo, Pearlman and Millhauser Anthony Doerr awarded...
Statesman Journal, February 29, 2012
...Acclaimed fiction writer Anthony Doerr will speak at Willamette University at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 5. His visit is sponsored by the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing and the Department of...
Baltimore Sun, January 11, 2012
...d Understand, Anyway," Tobias Wolff's "Our Story Begins" and last year's winner, "Memory Wall" by Anthony Doerr. The Story Prize will be awarded in New York on March 21. (Reporting by Chris Michaud; editing by Christine Kearney...
Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2012
...Pultizer for his debut novel "Edwin Mullhouse" in 1977. He won it for "Martin Dressler" in 1997. RELATED: Anthony Doerr awarded the 2010 Story Prize Daniyal Mueenudin, winner of the 2009 Story Prize Sherman Alexie, Louise Steinman to judge...
Statesman Journal, February 29, 2012
...Acclaimed fiction writer Anthony Doerr will speak at Willamette University at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 5. His visit is sponsored by the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing and the Department of...
Iowa State Daily, February 25, 2012
...the environment, whose work will be published in the next issue of "Flyaway: a Journal of Writing and Environment." Anthony Doerr, author of four books that take place on four different continents, and Rolf Potts, reporter who has reported from more...
Ames Daily Tribune, February 18, 2012
...Bone.” Also appearing at the symposium will be Aimee Nezhukumatathil, award-winning Filipina/Indian author of three books of poems; Anthony Doerr, science columnist for the Boston Globe and an award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer;...
The Independent, January 7, 2012
...Memory is figured as a persistent, even oppressive force: in "Afterworld", a Holocaust survivor is overcome by visions of lost friends; in "The Demilitarized Zone", a middle-aged cuckold is unable to forget his wife's betrayal. Memory is also shown to be...
NY Arts Magazine, December 11, 2011
...pages, 70 Illustrations, 59 in color, 44 essays on The Fulbright Triptych by such writers as Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr, John Russell,Guy Davenport, Thomas M. Messer, George Crumb, John Turturro, etc. Photo Credit: Milkweed EditionsSimon Dinnerstein,...
WA Today, December 10, 2011
...on Christmas Day and gets grittier and, remarkably, funnier from there. Of more recent vintage is US writer Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall (HarperCollins), a collection of stories set all over. His preoccupation with our inevitable decline into...
Brisbane Times, December 10, 2011
...on Christmas Day and gets grittier and, remarkably, funnier from there. Of more recent vintage is US writer Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall (HarperCollins), a collection of stories set all over. His preoccupation with our inevitable decline into...