Second Annual Hemingway Distinguished Lecture with ANTHONY DOERR SOLD OUT

To honor the July anniversaries of Ernest Hemingway’s birth and death, and to remember his attachment to Sun Valley, The Community Library presents its second annual Hemingway Distinguished Lecture. We are delighted to announce that the lecture will be given by Anthony Doerr.

 

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Boise with his wife and two sons. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

 

Translated into over forty languages, Doerr’s work has also won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories. His short stories and essays have won four O. Henry Prizes, four Pushcart Prizes, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the largest prize in the world for a single short story. His writing has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, among many other places. All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times bestseller and remained on the hardcover fiction bestseller list for 134 consecutive weeks.