Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including Body Surfing; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. In 1998 she received the New England Book Award for Fiction. Her novels have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher and then became a journalist. Withe the publication of her first novel, Eden Close, she gave up journalism to write fiction full time.
