We
have a house in Maine to thank for Ms. Shreve's visit to the HVWC. The
house appears in several of her works and is in the family of our founder,
Margo Stever.
Although Anita Shreve is now a best-selling writer who also wins literary awards, she began her writing career as a journalist. She spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back home in the U.S., she wrote freelance articles for magazines, later expanding two of them into the books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone.
With the 1989 publication of her first novel, Eden Close, she gave up journalism, thrilled, as she says, with the rush of freedom that “I could make it up.” Nine novels followed (Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass and All He Ever Wanted.) In 1998, she received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. The Pilot's Wife was an Oprah Pick in '99 and The Pilot's Wife and The Weight of Water have been made into movies. She will read from her next novel, Light on Snow, which will be released in the fall.
Introduction by Donna Lynch, HVWC Chairperson.
Reserved seats $10, $4 of which can be applied to book purchase - call
914-332-5953. Warner Library is located at 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown.
www.warnerlibrary.org
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.