“We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.”

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.