Anita Shreve

Infobox Writer


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occupation = Writer, Novelist
nationality = American
period = 1975–present
genre = Fiction, Non-fiction
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Anita Shreve (born 1946) is an award winning American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher. One of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting", (published in 1975) was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.

Among other jobs, Shreve spent three years working as a journalist in Nairobi, Kenya. She also taught creative writing at Amherst College in the 1990s."The Pilot's Wife" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in March 1999. Since then, Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Her novel "Resistance" was turned into the 2003 movie with the same title Resistance, with Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond as the main characters.

She lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Bibliography

Fiction

* "Past the Island, Drifting" (1975)
* "Eden Close" (1989)
* "Strange Fits of Passion" (1991)
* "Where or When" (1993)
* "Resistance" (1995)
* "The Weight of Water" (1997) (Shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize)
* "The Pilot's Wife" (1998)
* "Fortune's Rocks" (1999)
* "The Last Time They Met" (2001)
* "Sea Glass" (2002)
* "All He Ever Wanted" (2003)
* "Light on Snow" (2004)
* "A Wedding In December" (2005)
* "Body Surfing" (2007)
* "Testimony" (2008)

Nonfiction

* "" (1987)
* "" (1989)