Anthony Doerr

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Anthony Doerr (born Cleveland, Ohio) is an American fiction writer. 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. He also writes a column on science books for the Boston Globe.

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.

Doerr is married with twin sons and lives in Boise, Idaho.

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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)