Anthony Doerr ‘99

Anthony Doerr is an award-winning author who fondly recalls evening readings in Prout Chapel. His 2002 collection of short stories, “The Shell Collector,” won the Barnes & Noble Discovery Prize, two O. Henry Prizes and the Rome Prize, among other awards. He wrote “About Grace,” featuring a hermetic handyman who looks for his presumed-daughter. He also wrote a memoir about living in Italy for a year with newborn twins called “Four Seasons in Rome.”