Anthony Doerr

Biography

Anthony Doerr (b. 1973) is from Cleveland, Ohio, and spent years researching All the Light We Cannot See — including residencies in Europe and extensive archival research on WWII radio technology and the German school system. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015 and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. The novel took ten years to write. Doerr has described his central obsession as the nature of light — literal and moral — and the question of what it means to see clearly in a world organized for violence.

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