Editing Anthony Doerr

{{Short description|American author}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Anthony Doerr
| image = Anthony Doerr (2015).jpg
| caption = Doerr in July 2015
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place = [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date = 
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| occupation = Novelist
| education = [[Bowdoin College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])<br>[[Bowling Green State University]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
| website = {{URL|http://www.anthonydoerr.com}}
}}
'''Anthony Doerr''' is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel ''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]'', which won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].

== Early life and education==
Doerr grew up in [[Russell Township, Geauga County, Ohio|Cleveland, Ohio]],<ref>{{cite news |first=Karen R. |last=Long |title=Anthony Doerr Wins Lucrative Short-story Prize |url=http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/04/anthony_doerr_wins_lucrative_s.html |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |date=April 10, 2011 |access-date=2011-04-27 }}</ref> He attended [[University School]] in [[Hunting Valley, Ohio|Hunting Valley]], an eastern Cleveland suburb, graduating in 1991. He majored in history at [[Bowdoin College]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]] southwest of [[Augusta, Maine|Augusta]], graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from [[Bowling Green State University]] in [[Bowling Green, Ohio|Bowling Green]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Anthony-Doerr |title=Anthony Doerr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509162510/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Anthony-Doerr |archive-date=May 9, 2010 }}</ref>

==Career==
Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called ''The Shell Collector'' (2002). His first novel, ''About Grace'', was released in 2004. His memoir, ''Four Seasons in Rome'', was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, ''Memory Wall,'' was published in 2010. Doerr's second novel, ''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]'', is set in occupied [[France]] during [[World War II]] and was published in 2014. He laboriously worked on writing it for a decade in his [[downtown Boise]] office.<ref name="idahostatesman">{{cite news|last1=Oland|first1=Dana|title=Boise's Anthony Doerr wins the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|url=http://idahostatesman.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article40854669.html|work=Idaho Statesman|date=April 20, 2015|access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref> 

It received significant critical acclaim and was a finalist for the [[National Book Award for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Get To Know The Finalists For The 2014 National Book Award|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/10/15/354568850/get-to-know-the-finalists-for-the-2014-national-book-award|access-date=2020-11-06|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref> The book was a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestseller]], and was named by the newspaper as a notable book of 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/the-10-best-books-of-2014.html|title=The 10 Best Books of 2014|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 4, 2014}}</ref> It won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 2015. It was the runner-up for the 2015 [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]] for Fiction<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/#|title=Dayton Literary Peace Prize - An International Award|author=D. Verne Morland }}</ref> and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ohioana.org/about/media/prjuly1415.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-12-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905065528/http://www.ohioana.org/about/media/prjuly1415.pdf |archive-date=September 5, 2015 }}</ref> “It’s hard to think that I really belong on that list (he's the first Idahoan to win but a handful of writers including [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[Toni Morrison]] have ties to [[Idaho]]),” he told the [[Idaho Statesman|''Idaho Statesman'']]. “I really haven’t had a chance to understand what this means. It’s so overwhelming. My editor worked with a bunch of great writers and told me that when [[Frank McCourt]] (‘[[Angela's Ashes|Angela’s]] [[Angela's Ashes|Ashes]]’ in 1997) won he told her, ‘Now you know the first line of my obituary.’ ... that’s true. It’s this thing that will be forever attached to my name. You know, ‘Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Doerr does something stupid at a BSU football game.’ ...Can’t do that anymore.”<ref name="idahostatesman"/>

Doerr writes a column on science books for ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' and is a contributor to ''[[The Morning News (online magazine)|The Morning News]]'', an online magazine. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Writer in Residence for the state of Idaho.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.idaho.gov/writers/tonydoerr.aspx|title=ICA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512031242/http://www.arts.idaho.gov/writers/tonydoerr.aspx|archive-date=May 12, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/anthony-doerr-is-a-recognized-and-slightly-wealthier-fellow/Content?oid=1566790|title=Anthony Doerr Is A Recognized (And Slightly Wealthier) Fellow|work=Boise Weekly|access-date=April 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310165604/http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/anthony-doerr-is-a-recognized-and-slightly-wealthier-fellow/Content?oid=1566790|archive-date=March 10, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Doerr's third novel, ''[[Cloud Cuckoo Land (novel)|Cloud Cuckoo Land]]'', has three story lines, scattered throughout time: 13-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/harpercollins-is-delighted-to-announce-the-publication-of-antony-doerr-s-new-novel-cloud-cuckoo-land--871404014.html|title = HarperCollins is delighted to announce the publication of Antony Doerr's new novel 'CLOUD CUCKOO LAND'}}</ref> ''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' was released September 28, 2021. It was shortlisted for the 2021 [[National Book Award for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-10-06|title=National Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/10/06/194761/national-book-award-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-10|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006025606/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/10/06/194761/national-book-award-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=October 6, 2021 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Doerr lives in the highlands of [[Boise]], [[Idaho]] with his wife Shauna Eastman and their two twin sons. He has coached [[flag football]] and he and his sons ski and hike.<ref name="idahostatesman"/>

==Bibliography==
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===Novels===
*''About Grace'' (2004) {{ISBN|9780743261821}}
*''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]'' (2014) {{ISBN|9781476746586}}
*''[[Cloud Cuckoo Land (novel)|Cloud Cuckoo Land]]'' (2021) {{ISBN|9781982168438}}

=== Short fiction ===
;Collections
* ''The Shell Collector'' (2002) {{ISBN|9781439190050}}
* ''Memory Wall'' (2010) {{ISBN|9781439182802}}
;Anthologies edited
* ''[[The Best American Short Stories 2019]]'' (Editor)  {{ISBN|9781328465825}}
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===Memoirs===
* ''Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World'' (2007) {{ISBN|9781416540014}}

===Essays and reporting===
* {{cite journal |author=Doerr, Anthony |date=2010 |title=Two nights |journal=[[Fugue (magazine)|Fugue]] |volume=38 |issue=Winter–Spring 2010 |pages=45–54 |url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/fugue2010_n38 <!--|access-date=2015-03-06-->}}
* {{cite book |author=Doerr, Anthony |author-mask=1 |editor=Henderson, Bill |title=The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 |publisher=Pushcart Press |date=2013 |pages=208–216 |chapter=Two nights}}

===Critical studies and reviews of Doerr's work===
;''Cloud cuckoo land''
* {{cite journal |author=Wood, James |author-link=James Wood (critic) |date=October 4, 2021 |title=Connect the dots : everything must converge in Anthony Doerr's 'Cloud cuckoo land' |department=The Critics. Books |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=31 |pages=69–72 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/anthony-doerrs-optimism-engine <!--|access-date=2023-07-16-->}}<ref group=lower-alpha>Online version is titled "Anthony Doerr's optimism engine".</ref>

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==Awards==
* 2002: Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, for ''The Shell Collector''
* 2002: [[O. Henry Award|O. Henry Prize]] for "The Hunter's Wife"
* 2003: [[Young Lions Fiction Award]] for ''The Shell Collector''
* 2003: O. Henry Prize for "The Shell Collector"
* 2005: [[Rome Prize]] in Literature from the [[American Academy in Rome]]
* 2005, 2011: Ohioana Book Award for ''About Grace'' and ''Memory Wall'', respectively
* 2008: O. Henry Prize for "Village 113" (Short story)
* 2010: [[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2010|Guggenheim Fellowship]]
* 2011: [[The Story Prize]] for ''Memory Wall''
* 2011: [[Sunday Times Short Story Award|''Sunday Times'' Short Story Award]] for "The Deep"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13010528 |title=Anthony Doerr wins Short Story award |work=BBC News |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |date=April 8, 2011 |access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article378469.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185353/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article378469.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 9, 2012 |title=A heartwarming win for a heartbreaking tale |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |date=April 9, 2011 |access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref>
* 2012: O. Henry Prize for "The Deep"
* 2014: [[National Book Award for Fiction]] finalist for ''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]''
* 2015: [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] for ''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]''
* 2021: O. Henry Prize for "The Master’s Castle"

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.anthonydoerr.com}}
* Video: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140518043852/http://fora.tv/2011/03/02/The_Story_Prize_Awards_Ceremony_2011/ The Story Prize reading]}} with [[Yiyun Li]] and Suzanne Rivecca. March 2, 2011.

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