Cloud Cuckoo Land (41 page)
Authors: Anthony Doerr
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Anthony Doerr is the author of
All the Light We Cannot See
, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1
New York Times
bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections
Memory Wall
and
The Shell Collector
, the novel
About Grace
, and the memoir
Four Seasons in Rome
. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr now lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
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Four Seasons in Rome
About Grace
The Shell Collector
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Excerpt from FOUR PLAYS BY ARISTOPHANES: THE BIRDS, THE CLOUDS, THE FROGS, LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes, translated by William Arrowsmith, translation copyright © 1962 by William Arrowsmith. Used by permission of New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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