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Anita Shreve

(1946 - 2018)

Anita Shreve was the author of 19 novels, including The Pilot's Wife, Resistance and The Weight of Water, which were all made into movies. She grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts, the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school. After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. She died on March 29, 2018, at her home in New Hampshire, following a battle with cancer.

Genres: Romance, General Fiction

Series

Fortune's Rocks Quartet
   1. Fortune's Rocks (1999)
   2. Sea Glass (2002)
   3. The Pilot's Wife (1998)
   4. Body Surfing (2007)

Novels

   Eden Close (1989)
   Strange Fits of Passion (1991)
   Where or When (1993)
   Resistance (1995)
   The Weight of Water (1997)
   The Last Time They Met (1999)
   All He Ever Wanted (2003)
   Light on Snow (2004)
   A Wedding in December (2005)
   Testimony (2008)
   A Change in Altitude (2009)
   Rescue (2010)
   Stella Bain (2013)
     aka The Lives of Stella Bain
   The Stars are Fire (2017)

Collections

Eden Close / Strange Fits of Passion / Where Or When (2001)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Award nominations

1998 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Weight of Water

Anita Shreve recommends

The Devoted (2018)
Blair Hurley
"Blair Hurley is a gorgeous writer. This novel brims with startling and organic metaphors that fuel, like Zen koans, the heart of a remarkable story. Unlike the Boston films of late, The Devoted gets the accents right."

The Wife Between Us (2018)
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
"A fiendishly clever thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. This one will keep you guessing."

Fill the Sky (2016)
Katherine A Sherbrooke
"Richly imagined and beautifully rendered, this is a deeply moving novel."