It could be easy to miss the small cabin wedged between Capitol Boulevard, the downtown Boise Public Library, the Boise River Greenbelt and the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial.
But that log building has had an outsized impact on Idaho’s literary scene, attracting writers like Louise Erdrich, George Saunders and Michael Pollan. It has uplifted Idaho’s own growing list of award-winning authors, such as east Idaho’s Tara Westover, whose 2018 memoir “Educated” spent two years on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Boise’s Anthony Doerr , whose books include Pulitzer Prize winner “All the Light We Cannot See” and 2021’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” brought international attention to the City of Trees and he has given several talks and readings with The Cabin…