Event

Anthony Doerr

Puyallup Public Library welcomes award-winning author Anthony Doerr. All the Light We Cannot See won the 2015 Pulitzer prize for fiction. As part of the 2015 Puyallup Festival of Books, He will be delivering the 3rd Annual Jim Taylor Memorial Lecture. The event will take place at the Puyallup Pavilion, right next to the library. Books will be available for purchase at the event, and the author will be available for book signing after he speaks. Seating is limited. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Anthony Doerr's works include: the novels All the Light We Cannot See, (2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 2014 National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestseller), and About Grace; story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome.

All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about survival, endurance, and moral obligations during wartime. This will be a recurrent theme throughout the 2015 Puyallup Festival of Books.

Anthony Doerr's fiction has won four 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 Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, three Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of 21 Best Young American novelists. And now he has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction.