Bestselling novelist of 18 books, including The Weight of Water and The Pilot’s Wife, died after ‘a long and very private fight with cancer’
The bestselling novelist Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot’s Wife, has died at the age of 71, after what her publisher called “a long and very private fight with cancer”.
Shreve died on 29 March at her home in New Hampshire in the US. A high-school teacher and journalist before turning to writing fiction full time, Shreve was the author of 18 novels. Her first bestseller came in 1997. The Weight of Water, about a photographer investigating the brutal murder of two Norwegian women on a New Hampshire island more than a century ago, was shortlisted for the Orange prize and adapted into a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow in 2000.
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