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Author Anthony Doerr Coming to Town for ‘Arlington Reads 2016’

All the Light We Cannot See (photo via Arlington Public Library)Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr will be the featured speaker for Arlington Reads 2016.

Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” earned him widespread literary fame after it was published in 2014. The New York Times bestseller won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year.

The novel tells the story of “a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.”

Doerr is scheduled to speak at Washington-Lee High School’s auditorium on Thursday, April 7 from 7-8:30 p.m. Doors will open to the public at 6 p.m.

Two other authors will speak as part Arlington Reads 2016, the theme of which is “the human displacement of World War II.”

Julie Otsuka, author of “When the Empire Was Divine,” will speak on Thursday, May 5 and author Richard Reeves of “Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II” will speak on Thursday, May 19. Both events will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. at Arlington Central Library (1015 N. Quincy Street).

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