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Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts (just outside Boston), the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school (a short novel she still claims as one of her favorites) and everything Eugene O'Neill ever wrote while she was a senior (to which she attributes a somewhat dark streak in her own work). After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. In the middle of her last year, she quit (something that, as a parent, she finds appalling now) to start writing. "I had this panicky sensation that it was now or never."Joking that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejections from magazines for her short stories ("I really could have," she says), she published her early work in literary journals. One of these stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," won an O. Henry prize. Despite this accolade, she quickly learned that one couldn't make a living writing short fiction. Switching to journalism, Shreve traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived for three years, working as a journalist for an African magazine. One of her novels, The Last Time They Met, contains bits and pieces from her time in Africa.Returning to the United States, Shreve was a writer and editor for a number of magazines in New York. Later, when she began her family, she turned to freelancing, publishing in the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine and dozens of others. In 1989, she published her first novel, Eden Close. Since then she has written 12 other novels, among them The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, and Body Surfing.In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 1999, she received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey, and The Pilot's Wife became the 25th selection of Oprah's Book Club and an international bestseller. In April 2002, CBS aired the film version of The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti, and in fall 2002, The Weight of Water, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Penn, was released in movie theaters. Still in love with the novel form, Shreve writes only in that genre. "The best analogy I can give to describe writing for me is daydreaming," she says. "A certain amount of craft is brought to bear, but the experience feels very dreamlike."Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13. She has two children and three stepchildren, and in the last eight years has made tuition payments to seven colleges and universities.


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Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts (just outside Boston), the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school (a short novel she still claims as one of her favorites) and everything Eugene O'Neill ever wrote while she was a senior (to which she attributes a somewhat dark streak in her own work). After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. In the middle of her last year, she quit (something that, as a parent, she finds appalling now) to start writing. "I had this panicky sensation that it was now or never."Joking that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejections from magazines for her short stories ("I really could have," she says), she published her early work in literary journals. One of these stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," won an O. Henry prize. Despite this accolade, she quickly learned that one couldn't make a living writing short fiction. Switching to journalism, Shreve traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived for three years, working as a journalist for an African magazine. One of her novels, The Last Time They Met, contains bits and pieces from her time in Africa.Returning to the United States, Shreve was a writer and editor for a number of magazines in New York. Later, when she began her family, she turned to freelancing, publishing in the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine and dozens of others. In 1989, she published her first novel, Eden Close. Since then she has written 12 other novels, among them The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, and Body Surfing.In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 1999, she received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey, and The Pilot's Wife became the 25th selection of Oprah's Book Club and an international bestseller. In April 2002, CBS aired the film version of The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti, and in fall 2002, The Weight of Water, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Penn, was released in movie theaters. Still in love with the novel form, Shreve writes only in that genre. "The best analogy I can give to describe writing for me is daydreaming," she says. "A certain amount of craft is brought to bear, but the experience feels very dreamlike."Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13. She has two children and three stepchildren, and in the last eight years has made tuition payments to seven colleges and universities.


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All He Ever Wanted

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A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He...

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The Weight Of Water

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On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century...

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Rescue

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Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a...

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Sea Glass

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The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just...

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The Lives of Stella Bain

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Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an...

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The Pilot's Wife

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Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her...

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The Pilot's Wife: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

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With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of...

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Fortune's Rocks

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Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia...

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Light on Snow

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Best-selling author Anita Shreve has chosen as her latest protagonist a...

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Testimony: A Novel

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A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in...

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The Weight of Water

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"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she...

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Sea Glass

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Anita Shreve's new novel Sea Glass represents a remarkable advance....

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Body Surfing: A Novel

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Struggling to start over again after being divorced and widowed while still...

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A Wedding in December

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At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to...

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The Last Time They Met

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Anita Shreve, who has long since cornered the market with her finely...

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Rescue

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A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first...

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All He Ever Wanted: A Novel

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Anita Shrieve's bitter novel All He Ever Wanted is a fascinating...

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Stella Bain

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An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling...

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Eden Close

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A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and...

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A Change in Altitude: A Novel

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Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off...

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Strange Fits of Passion

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Fascinée par Harold English, un homme en train de sombrer dans...

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Resistance

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Paperback. Pub Date :2006-7-1 Pages: 284 Publisher: Oversea Publishing...

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Where or When

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Charles Callahan is reading the Sunday paper when an alluring and oddly...

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Strange Fits Of Passion/Where Or When

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Eden Close / Strange Fits of Passion / Where or When (Omnibus)

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EDEN CLOSE - Eden and Andrew have been childhood companions until the day...

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The First Anita Shreve Omnibus

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Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Conscious-Raising Movement

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Shreve examines the history of feminism over the last 15 years and the...

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Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers Are Shaping Our Children's Future

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More than two-thirds of the mothers in this country work outside the home,...

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Gefesselt in Seide

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Dopo una parola

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Thomas e Linda si incontrano dopo tanti anni. Ma per loro incontrarsi non...

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Testimony

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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even...


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