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I grew up on a small dairy farm in Minnesota. Had no idea I'd become a writer one day, but I enjoyed history and English classes in high school–along with lots of outdoor and team sports. Too skinny for football, good at basketball, great glove at third base but couldn't hit a curveball to save my life.

Off to college at Saint Cloud State University (Minnesota), and then the University in Minneapolis, as an "undeclared major," but eventually decided upon English. I graduated with my B.A. in English in 1972 at the height of the Vietnam period, which was a difficult time for everybody. To clear my head and figure out what to do about the draft, I went to California for work and school. The war ended, thankfully, and I landed in the Stanford W...more

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Will Weaver's Blog

Will Weaver isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

Approaches to Writing Your Novel

My most successful novel for young adults is Memory Boy, a draft of which I wrote in three weeks. That should have told me something. However, as a novelist I'm a slow learner; or more precisely, each novel is its own puzzle to solve, and it's usually a mistake to hark back to the previous book when writing a new one. However, I'm trying just that with my new novel: re-visiting the approach I t... read more »

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Books by Will Weaver

Average rating: 3.73 · 1,174 ratings · 294 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Defect 3.56 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Memory Boy 3.59 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Claws 3.85 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories 4.14 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Full Service 3.71 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Gravestone Made of Wheat 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Red Earth, White Earth 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Saturday Night Dirt: A MOTOR Novel 3.40 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hard Ball by Will Weaver, Michael Koelsch 3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Farm Team 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Will Weaver

Memory Boy (2 books)
by Will Weaver

3.56 avg rating — 223 ratings

Billy Baggs (3 books)
by Will Weaver, Michael Koelsch

3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings

Motor (3 books)
by Will Weaver

3.59 avg rating — 102 ratings

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“Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

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“She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.”
― Will Weaver

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“No escape--like life itself.”
― Will Weaver

tags: reality

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