Anita Shreve is the author of the international bestseller "The Pilot's Wife", which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and of the acclaimed novels "Eden Close", "Strange Fits of Passion", "Where or When", "Resistance", "The Weight of Water", which was a finalist for the prestigious Orange Prize, & "Fortune's Rocks". She lives in New England.

In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 2010 her book Rescue hit the New York Times Best seller list. (Bowker Author Biography) Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts. In 1968, she graduated from Tufts University with a degree in English and a teaching certificate. She began teaching high school English in Reading, Massachusetts. She has also taught a fiction writing class at Amherst College where she has a position as a visiting lecturer for the English Department

Shreve went to Nairobi for three years working for an English language magazine. She returned to America in the late 1970's and worked several jobs in New York City. She was a staff writer and edited for Newsweek magazine. She wrote forty articles freelancing for publications that included Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times.

Shreve received a Page One Award from the New York Newspaper Guild for a cover article about working mothers, which brought her to write the nonfiction books titled "Remaking Motherhood" (1987) and "Women Together, Women Alone" (1989). After these were published, she began writing her first novel in secret, which was "Eden Close" (1989). After "Eden Close," she followed with "Strange Fits of Passion" (1991), "Where or When" (1993), and "Resistance" (1995). In 1997, she wrote "The Weight of Water" which won the 1998 PEN/L. Winship Award for the Best Book With a Connection to New England. It was also a finalist for the Orange Prize, which is awarded by a United Kingdom firm to a woman published in Great Britain.

Her latest novel is entitled, Rescue. (Bowker Author Biography)