Which novel by Anthony Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015?

The novel by Anthony Doerr that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015 was All the Light We Cannot See.

Published in 2014, the historical novel is set during World War II and follows two young people: Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl in occupied France, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy whose talent for radio technology brings him into the Nazi military system. Their stories eventually converge in Saint-Malo during the war.

Doerr uses short, shifting chapters and a nonlinear structure to move between the characters’ perspectives. The novel explores moral choice, scientific discovery, communication, courage, and the destructive power of war. Its title reflects the book’s interest in perception: what people can sense, understand, or value beyond ordinary sight.

The novel won the Pulitzer for work published the previous year, a timing detail that often causes confusion. It also won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was adapted as a four-part Netflix miniseries released in 2023. The other listed titles are Doerr works, but none won this Pulitzer.