![]() ![]() The instant New York Times bestseller, which chronicles the parallel and eventually intersecting lives of two European children in World War II, has been chosen as Case Western Reserve University’s 2016 common reading selection for first-year undergraduates. ![]() ![]() ![]() That novel, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (Scribner, 2014)-which took Doerr a decade to research and write-was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. “I decided I wanted to tell a story set in a time when the magic of this kind of long-distance communication was not taken for granted-when hearing the voice of a stranger or loved one in your ear was magical….When I learned how Hitler and the entire Nazi party used it as a tool for propaganda, I knew I would set the novel in World War II.” “I began asking myself, ‘How did we all get to the point where we take for granted that this technology will work?’” he explained years later to an Ohio Magazine writer. Photo by Todd Meier.Īuthor Anthony Doerr was on a train to New York City to meet with his book publisher in 2004, when the man riding in front of him lost his mind over a dropped cellphone call as they passed through a tunnel approaching Manhattan. Author and fall convocation speaker Anthony Doerr. ![]()
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