Anthony Doerr is an American

United States

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 fiction

Fiction

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 writer

Writer

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. Raised in nearby Novelty, Ohio

Russell Township, Geauga County, Ohio

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, he majored in history at Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

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 and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University

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Many of the stories in Shell Collector, take place in 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

France

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 during World War II

World War II

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 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 2007 and by Fourth Estate in the UK in 2008. He also writes a column on science books for the Boston Globe and is a contributor to The Morning News

The Morning News (online magazine)

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

Idaho

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. From 2007–2010 he was considered the 'writer-in-residence' for the state of Idaho.

Awards

• Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, for The Shell Collector
• Rome Prize
  Rome Prize
  The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...
  
   from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome
  American Academy in Rome
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• Ohioana Book Award
• 2003: New York Public Library
  New York Public Library
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  's Young Lions Fiction Award, winner, The Shell Collector
• 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2011: The Story Prize, winner, Memory Wall

Anthologies

• "The Shell Collector", The Best American Short Stories 2003, Editors Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, ISBN 9780618197330
• "Village 113", The O. Henry prize stories, Volume 2008, Editor Laura Furman, Random House, Inc., 2008, ISBN 9780307280343
• The PEN/O. Henry prize stories, Volume 2009, Editor Laura Furman, Anchor Books, 2009, ISBN 9780307280350
• "The Caretaker", The Anchor book of new American short stories, Editor Ben Marcus, Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 9781400034826

External links

• www.anthonydoerr.com
• Video: The Story Prize reading with Yiyun Li
  Yiyun Li
  Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award...
  
  and Suzanne Rivecca. March 2, 2011.