“Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.”

American novelist and short story writer

Anthony Doerr is an American novelist and short story writer. He came to wide attention with his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His work spans novels and short fiction, and he is especially known for the success of All the Light We Cannot See. The book brought him broad recognition and established him as a major contemporary American literary voice.