Anita Shreve

I'm rereading Anita's books and loving them all over again, but I've only just discovered that she died in 2018. I'm sure she is greatly missed by many including myself now. She has given me many, many hours of pleasure reading her wonderful novels and the rereading of them is doing the same all over again. My sincere condolences to all those who were close to her.

I hope her loved ones still see these. I just picked up Rescue from the library and went to Instagram to see what she has been up to and had no idea she had passed. One of my favorite authors and was thrilled to find a book I had missed. The talent burrowed into your heart - so grateful she shared her gift with us .... Gone too soon. Heather Dreske

In the middle of Mongolia last summer, I found one of Anita´s books at a yurt (ger) camp!!!!!

For the past 8 years, I was trying to find my high school English teacher Anita Christianson to thank her for making such a huge impact on my life which helped create the person who I came to be. She and Social Studies teacher Helen Feinberg collaborated together and expanded our horizons and opened our eyes to the unjust Vietnam War and women´s rights. As a classmate a few years ago was reading one of Anita Shreve´s books, she realized this Anita was our adored Anita Christianson. It all...

This author has moved me like no other. Her books have become like best friends, which I read over and over. I once wrote to her care of her publisher and was thrilled to get a reply. Given that she must have been inundated with mail I was so touched she had replied to my letter. The fact of this became the seed of a novel I went on to write. The world has lost a truly gifted writer in Anita Shreve. Richard Corney Wales UK 2024

I just saw that Anita Shreve had died..so young..I absolutely love her writing..so many of her books .. I plan to order those I haven't read and I am so sorry she and her wonderful talent is gone.

My favorite writer. Just when I think I've read all her books, I find one by chance and it turns out I haven't read it. "Light on Snow" is my latest serendipitous discovery. I ate it up in just a couple of days, angry at myself for not slowing down to savor it even more. A beautiful book. She died while still at the peak of her talent. Who knows what more she could have written to move so many people?

Have read 4 of her books, and can't put them down. Testimony hit home the most, being an educator and parent to those teenagers. Will continue to read the rest. Taken too soon from the literary world.

My wife and I have long been fans of Anita Shreeve's novels. We discovered her some years ago while renting a cabin in Greenville Maine. A previous renter had left a copy of Eden Close behind and first my wife then I read it cover to cover in one day. We have both read every one of her astonishingy good novels since then and were crushed to belatedly recently learn of her death. Living as we do in Bar Harbor Maine her last novel, "The Stars Are Fire" really hit home as the fires that raged...