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Library Live: Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See

LIBRARY LIVE 2025 - 2026

 

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation presents

We are thrilled to welcome these four brilliant authors to our 2025-26 series. Library Live is for adventurous readers who enjoy hearing from established literary figures and emerging talent. Novelists, poets, historians, journalists, biographers, memoirists and more share their ideas firsthand with our community. Participate, engage, and be challenged by our presentations with today’s most gifted scribes.

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Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 7 p.m. 

The event will be held in the Witte Hall

 Buy Tickets:  https://nbplf.foundation/programs/library-live-24-25/

Anthony Doerr is the author of several acclaimed works, including the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and novels such as About Grace, All the Light We Cannot See (winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize), and Cloud Cuckoo Land (finalist for the 2021 National Book Award). His short stories and essays have earned five O. Henry Prizes and have been featured in notable anthologies. Doerr's works have been translated into over forty languages and have received numerous awards, including the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the prestigious Story Prize. All the Light We Cannot See was a bestseller, remaining on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 200 weeks.


**Programs starts at 7:00pm and check-in at 6:30pm

 

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