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Anita Shreve


Born
in Dedham, Massachusetts
October 07, 1946

Died
March 29, 2018

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Anita Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. 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 Kenya. In 1999, while she was teaching Creative Writing at Amherst College, Oprah Winfrey selected The Pilot's Wife for her book club. Her novels The Weight of Water and Resistance became a films of the same name. CBS released The Pilot's Wifeas a movie of the week.

She died on March 29, 2018, at her home at Newfields, New Hampshire, from cance ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 541,529 ratings · 39,126 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors
The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's...
3.55 avg rating — 95,686 ratings — published 1998 — 109 editions
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The Stars Are Fire
3.87 avg rating — 38,194 ratings — published 2017 — 35 editions
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's ...
3.90 avg rating — 30,209 ratings — published 1999 — 94 editions
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Light on Snow
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Testimony
3.58 avg rating — 29,392 ratings — published 2008 — 63 editions
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The Weight of Water
3.65 avg rating — 27,927 ratings — published 1997 — 74 editions
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Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks ...
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Body Surfing (Fortune's Roc...
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A Wedding in December
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The Last Time They Met
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
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“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”
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“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”
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