Summary: <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.davidnaimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Screen-shot-2013-09-22-at-7.06.56-PM.png"></a>Host David Naimon speaks with writer Anthony Doerr about his latest book, Memory Wall. Doerr is the author of three other books, <a href="http://www.anthonydoerr.com/books#book_1">The Shell Collector</a>, <a href="http://www.anthonydoerr.com/books#book_2">About Grace</a>, and<a href="http://www.anthonydoerr.com/books#book_3">Four Seasons in Rome</a>. Doerr’s short fiction has won three <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/">O. Henry Prizes</a> and has been anthologized in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-2003/dp/0618197338">The Best American Short Stories</a>, <a href="http://www.benmarcus.com/anchor.htm">The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scribner-Anthology-Contemporary-Short-Fiction/dp/1416532277/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201710747&sr=1-2">The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction</a>. He has won the <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/awards/bndiscover_past.asp?z=y">Barnes & Noble Discover Prize</a>, the <a href="http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm">Rome Prize</a>, the <a href="http://www.nypl.org/support/membership_programs/fictionaward.cfm">New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award</a>, a<a href="http://www.gf.org/fellows/16748-anthony-doerr">Guggenheim Fellowship</a>, an <a href="http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=02_05">NEA Fellowship</a>, the <a href="http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/nma_winners/index.aspx">National Magazine Award for Fiction</a>, two <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781888889512-0">Pushcart Prizes</a>, the <a href="http://www.pnba.org/2011bookawards.html">Pacific Northwest Book Award</a>, and two <a href="http://www.ohioana.org/awards/past/bookfictionpast.asp">Ohioana Book Awards</a>. His books have twice been a New York Times Notable Book, an American Library Association <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleasesbucket/pressreleases2003/2003notablebooks.htm">Book of the Year</a>, and made lots of other year end “Best Of” lists. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of <a href="http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/">21 Best Young American novelists</a>.<br> <br>
