DOERR READS IN LARAMIE NOV. 15

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. Book signing to follow.

Doerr is the author of two books, a 2002 volume of eight short stories entitled, "The Shell Collector," and a 2004 novel, "About Grace." 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. 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 is co-sponsor of Doerr's visit.
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