Anthony Doerr
PopTech 2009
Fiction writer and memoirist Anthony Doerr is the author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. His short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. He has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the American Library Association Book of the Year citation, and the Ohioana Book Award twice. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of 21 Best Young American novelists. He also writes a column on science books for The Boston Globe.
Doerr currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. His three-year term as official State of Idaho Writer-in-Residence will end in June 2010, around the same time Scribner will publish his fourth book, a collection of short stories.