By Liz Button on Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr will be present to accept the 2015 Indies Choice Book of the Year Award for Fiction at the American Booksellers Association’s 15th annual Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Luncheon, to be held on May 28 at BookExpo America.
Even prior to its Indies Choice win, independent booksellers provided early and strong support to Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner), with positive buzz beginning at the 2014 Winter Institute in Seattle and building to the novel being named the #1 Indie Next List pick for May 2014. -
Doerr recently spoke to Bookselling This Week about the book’s success and the value he places on the continued support of independent booksellers.
What has the support of independent booksellers meant to you?
Anthony Doerr:
Everything! This novel would not have reached one-tenth of the readers it has without the support of independent booksellers. They are the ones who have blogged about it, set it in shop windows, hosted me all over the country, and put it into the hands of readers. As a short story writer, my books have always been the kind of books that don’t usually find readers unless a bookseller or librarian recommends them. Everywhere I’ve gone in the States, from Washington, D.C., to Bellingham, Washington, when readers tell me how they discovered All the Light, they don’t say it’s because of an event I did, or because the book won a prize, it’s because a friend, librarian, or bookseller convinced them to give -
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