Authors on the Web - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve Trivia

1. Which of the following is NOT the title of one of Shreve's novels:
A) Women Together, Women Alone
B) Resistance
C) Where Or When
D) The Last Time They Met

2. The house featured in THE PILOT'S WIFE also appears in which other Shreve book?
A) The Weight of Water
B) Strange Fits of Passion
C) Fortune's Rock
D) Eden's Close

3. For what month/year was THE PILOT'S WIFE chosen as an official Oprah Book Club selection?
A) January 2000
B) February 1999
C) March 1999
D) April 2000

4. Shreve is writing the screenplay for which of the following books, to be aired as a TV movie on CBS?
A) Strange Fits of Passion
B) The Last Time They Met
C) Fortune's Rocks
D) The Pilot's Wife

5. Shreve was "taken with" and first "inspired" to write fiction by which of the following books:
A) That Night by Alice McDermott
B) The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
C) The Child in Time by Ian McKewen
D) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

6. Shreve graduated, with a degree in English, from which of the following colleges?
A) Williams College
B) Brandeis University
C) Wellesley College
D) Tufts University

7. For which magazine was Shreve a staff writer?
A) Time
B) Newsweek
C) The Nation
D) US News and World Report

8. The events in THE PILOT'S WIFE bore an eerie similarity to which of the following real life plane crashes:
A) Valujet Flight 592
B) Concorde Flight AF4590
C) TWA Flight 800
D) Pan Am Flight 102

9. All but one of Shreve's books take place in New England. Which one?
A) The Weight of Water
B) Eden Close
C) Fortune's Rocks
D) Where or When

10. FORTUNE'S ROCKS was set in the 19th century. In what other book did Shreve "experiment" with 19th century language?
A) The Pilot's Wife
B) The Last Time They Met
C) Resistance
D) The Weight of Water