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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
Anthony Doerr
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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
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Cleveland
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Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
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WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.
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