BABEL - Anthony Doerr
Join Just Buffalo Literary Center for an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Anthony Doerr.
Since the publication of his first stories, Doerr has been lauded for his lyricism, his precise attention to the physical world, and his gift for metaphor.
His latest novel is the instant New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, a soaring novel about the power of story and a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. A “wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of experience and learning, and embodies the storytelling gifts that it celebrates” (The New York Times Book Review), it was a finalist for both the National Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
Doerr is also the author of the runaway bestseller All The Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Carnegie Medal and a finalist for the National Book Award. The book spent more than 200 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 5.7 million copies in North America plus another 9.5 million copies worldwide. An eagerly anticipated limited series adaptation is forthcoming from Netflix.
His other books include the novel About Grace, the short story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. Among his many honors Doerr has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, five O. Henry Prizes, the Story Prize (considered the most prestigious prize in the US for a collection of short stories), and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award (the largest prize in the world for a single short story). Doerr lectures all over the country on originality, the importance of failure, and the role of wonder in contemporary life.
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