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Nov. 7, 2006 -- The University of Wyoming Creative Writing Program will host award-winning author Anthony Doerr Wednesday, Nov. 15, as part of its visiting writer series.
The author will read from his work at 5 p.m. in the Albany County Public Library Meeting Room, 310 S. 8th St. He will sign his books following the free, public event.
Doerr is the author of two books, a 2002 volume of eight short stories titled, "The Shell Collector," and a 2004 novel, "About Grace." He also received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University.
His first book earned him the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, and the Ohioana Book Award. Additionally, "The Shell Collector" was a New York Times Notable Book and an American Library Association Book of the Year.
The Washington Post named his first novel one of the Best Books of 2004, and it was a finalist for the PEN USA fiction award. It also won him a second Ohioana Book Award.
Doerr's fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories. Doerr, who lives in Boise, Idaho, also writes the "On Science" column for the Boston Globe.
Next June he will publish his third book, a nonfiction work about living with his family for a year in Italy, called, "Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World."
The Albany County Public Library co-sponsors the visit.
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Award-winning author Anthony Doerr will read from his work at 5 p.m. in the Albany County Public Library Meeting Room, 310 S. 8th St. He will sign his books following the free, public event. (Photo Courtesy Anthony Doerr)
Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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