Anthony Doerr is an award-winning American author best known for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr has written several other acclaimed works, including Cloud Cuckoo Land, About Grace, the short-story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. His honors include five O. Henry Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the Story Prize, and the National Magazine Award for Fiction; Cloud Cuckoo Land was also a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.