Anthony Doerr is an American author from Cleveland, Ohio. Critics have praised Doerr' s writing for his short, sharp sentences and attention to detail. His first book, The Shell Collector, was a collection of short stories that was released in 2002. Many of its tales were set in Africa and New Zealand, where Doerr had previously stayed. His second novel, All the Light We Cannot See, was published in 2014. It quickly became a New York Times best-seller and won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
安東尼．杜爾是一位來自俄亥俄州克里夫蘭市的美國作家。他精簡明快的敘事語句和對於細節的注意受到了書評家的讚譽。他的第一本書《拾貝人》是一部在 2002 年出版的短篇小說集。其中許多故事背景設定在非洲和紐西蘭，這些是杜爾曾經待過的地方。他的第二部小說《呼喚奇蹟的光》於 2014 年出版。它快速地成為了《紐約時報》的一本暢銷書，並獲得了普立茲小說獎。
生活必備字詞： praise vt. 稱讚 & n. 讚譽 release vt. 發行；發表 previously adv. 以前，先前 The book contains a number of photographs not previously published.
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