Incredible to deliver the commencement address (twice!) at the University of Idaho in my beloved home state. What a privilege to celebrate the extraordinary class of 2024.
Very proud to have to drafted this message for Harrison Ford and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation for Earth Day 2024.
Cloud Cuckoo Land has won the 2022 Grand prix de littérature américaine (France).
I’ll be on tour promoting the paperback of Cloud Cuckoo Land soon! Hope I might see you.
More details are on the Events page.
Cloud Cuckoo Land was named winner of the 32nd Annual Reading the West Book Award in the Fiction category. Huge thanks to the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association!
Cloud Cuckoo Land was a finalist for Novel of the Year at the British Book Awards.
Mark Ruffalo has been cast as Daniel LeBlanc—Marie-Laure’s father—and Hugh Laurie will play Etienne LeBlanc, Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle who she comes to live with in Saint-Malo, in the Netflix limited series of All the Light We Cannot See.
Cloud Cuckoo Land has been named a Favorite Book of 2021 by President Barack Obama and a Best of the Year at Publishers Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Barnes & Noble, Oprah Daily, Amazon, BookPage, Tattered Cover, Time, NPR, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, EW, Time, Tor.com, and Fresh Air.
The North American tour is underway! Anthony will be presenting 20 virtual and in-person events to celebrate the release of his newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land. Hear him speak in person—or online—this fall, get a copy of the book, and help support an independent bookshop! Thanks as always and please visit the events page for more details.
“All the Light We Cannot See” has been greenlit to a limited series at Netflix. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment will produce, with Levy directing all the episodes. Steven Knight will adapt for the screen. Levy and the show’s producers are embarking on a worldwide casting search for the lead role of Marie-Laure, who is blind, and encouraging blind or low-vision actresses to apply. For more information on the casting search, please contact lucybevancasting@gmail.com.
The New York Times published a profile of Anthony, and The Guardian published an interview.
Indie Next named Cloud Cuckoo Land its #1 pick for October—thank you, indies!
Cloud Cuckoo Land was named a Most Anticipated Pick by the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, Parade, USA Today, Thrillist, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, NPR.org, Buzzfeed, Good Morning America, CNN.com, EOnline, PopSugar, Country Living, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, The Week, Bustle, HeyAlma, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Fortune, BookRiot, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, B&N Reads, AARP, Chicago Tribune
Anthony’s forthcoming novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, has received starred reviews from all four pre-publication industry journals, Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Cloud Cuckoo Land will be published in the U.S. and the U.K. on Sept 28, 2021.
A new short story by Anthony, “The Master’s Castle,” will appear in the 2021 O. Henry Prizes.
Anthony was honored to serve as guest editor of the 2019 Best American Short Stories.
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