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Fast Facts
- The idea for The Pilot's Wife actually began when Shreve overheard an airline pilot telling someone at a cocktail party that when a plane goes down "the union always gets to the house of the pilot's wife first...it's the union representative's job to keep the wife from talking to the press."
- The movie adaptation of The Weight of Water has just finished filming, and is due out in Fall 2001. The cast stars Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley and Sarah Polley.
- Before she turned to fiction, Shreve spent two years as a journalist stationed in Nairobi, Kenya.
- While working as a journalist, Shreve's cover article about working mothers won a Page One Award from the New York Newspaper Guild. Shreve's first nonfiction book, Remaking Motherhood (1987), was born from this award-winning piece.
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Bio
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Anita Shreve is the author of the novels Sea Glass (2002), All He Ever Wanted (2003), The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Weight of Water, Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, and Resistance. She divides her time between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Anita Shreve began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Shreve felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Shreve later expanded two of these articles -- both published in the New York Times Magazine -- into the nonfiction books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time Shreve also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up."
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