BRUNSWICK, Maine — Anthony Doerr, a 1995 graduate of Bowdoin College, was named a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.
Doerr’s novel “All the Light We Cannot See” tells the stories of a German boy and a blind French girl whose paths cross as she flees Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II.
Doerr also is the author of the short story collections “Memory Wall” and “The Shell Collector,” the novel “About Grace” and the memoir “Four Seasons in Rome.”
Among his other many awards, he has received four O. Henry prizes, three Pushcart prizes and a Guggenheim Fellowship, according to Simon & Schuster.
A New York Times bestseller, “All the Light We Cannot See” was praised by Times reviewer Janet Maslin as “hauntingly beautiful” and in Booklist as “a novel to live in, learn from and feel bereft over when the last page is turned.”
Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.