Anthony Doerr Quotes

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

Anthony Doerr

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• My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • School
  • High
  • Science