Anita Shreve
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| Born: | 1946 |
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| Occupation: | Writer, Novelist |
| Nationality: | United States of America  |
| Writing period: | 1975 - Present |
| Genres: | Fiction, Non-fiction |
| Debut works: | Past the Island, Drifting |
Anita Shreve (b. 1946) is an award winning American writer.
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[edit] Biography
Shreve is 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.
She lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] 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)
- 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)
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