Ohioana Fiction Book Award: 2005
Anthony Doerr for About Grace
Scribner 2004
 This is the third
Ohioana Award that Anthony Doerr has received. In 2000, he was chosen for Ohioana’s
Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, given to promising writers under 30, and in 2002, his book,
The Shell Collector, garnered the Ohioana Book Award for fiction.
Doerr is also the recipient of the 2002 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction and the 2003 New York
Public Library Young Lions Award.
He earned his B.A. in history from Bowdoin College and his M.F.A. in writing from
Bowling Green State University. He and his wife Shauna live in Boise,
Idaho. About Grace is his first full-length novel.
Anthony Doerr website
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