Prize-Winning Author to Give Reading

Prize-winning novelist and short story writer Anthony Doerr will be the featured reader Oct. 14 at Westminster’s Friday Night Readings Series. The series features readings given by guest writers and Westminster students on selected Fridays during the academic year. The student reader will be Sixth Former Ellie Baker, the winner of the Brian Ford Writing Prize.

Doerr is the author of four books, “The Shell Collector,” “About Grace,” “Four Seasons in Rome,” and, most recently, “Memory Wall,” which won the 2010 Story Prize and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe and many other newspapers.

His books have twice been named a New York Times Notable Book and an American Library Association Book of the Year, and they have made numerous other year-end “best of” lists. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of 21 Best Young American Novelists. His book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Der Spiegel, and he writes a regular column on science books for the Boston Globe.

The Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the Armour Academic Center. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the reading and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center.