Anita Shreve is an American author. She lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Born in 1946, her parents were an airline pilot and a homemaker. Shreve attended Tufts University. Among other jobs, she spent three years working as a journalist in Nairobi, Kenya.

Shreve started 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.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Eden Close (1989)
• Strange Fits of Passion (1991)
• Where or When (1993)
• Resistance (1995)
• The Weight of Water (1997)
• The Pilot's Wife (1998)
• Fortune's Rocks (1999)
• The Last Time They Met (2001)
• Sea Glass (2002)
• All He Ever Wanted (2003)
• Light on Snow (2004)
• A Wedding In December (2005)

Nonfiction

• How Working Mothers are Shaping Our Children's Future (1987)
• The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement (1989)

American novelists | American short story writers | American non-fiction writers | People from Massachusetts | 1946 births | Living people