Anthony Doerr is the author of a short story collection, The Shell Collector, and a novel, About Grace. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including the O. Henry Prize Stories, Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope: All Story, and The Best American Short Stories. The Shell Collector was published in 2002 and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, and the Ohioana Book Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book and an American Library Association Book of the Year. About Grace, his first novel, was published in September of 2004 and was named a Best Book of 2004 by The Washington Post, and the Best Book of the Year by The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The title of this lecture is, "About Grace: A Novel Reading and Discussion."