Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve is an American author. She lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Born in 1946, she was the daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker. Shreve attended Tufts University. Among other jobs, she spent three years working as a journalist in Nairobi, Kenya.

Shreve also taught creative writing at Amherst College in the 1990s, and it was one of her students at Amherst who recommended her novels to Oprah Winfrey. The Pilot's Wife was selected by Oprah for her book club in March 1999. Since then, Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Shreve started 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.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Fiction

• Eden Close (1989)
• Strange Fits of Passion (1991)
• Where or When (1993)
• Resistance (1995)
• The Weight of Water (1997)
• 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)

[edit] Nonfiction

• Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers are Shaping Our Children's Future (1987)
• Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement (1989)