Date: Friday, May 7, 2010, at 12:00 noon
Location: Ballroom at the Newton Marriott
2345 Commonwealth Avenue (at Route 128)
Newton, MA
Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, the eldest of three daughters. After graduating from Tufts, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston, before she quit to start writing. She published her early work in literary journals. One of these stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," won an O. Henry prize. Shreve then traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived for three years, working as a journalist. Returning to the U.S., Shreve was a writer and editor for magazines in New York. Later, she turned to freelancing, publishing in the NY Times Magazine, New York magazine and many others. In 1989, she published her first novel, Eden Close. Since then she has written many other novels, among them The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, and Body Surfing.
In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 1999, The Pilot's Wife became a selection of Oprah's Book Club and an international bestseller. In April 2002, CBS aired the film version of The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti, and in fall 2002, The Weight of Water, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Penn, was released in movie theaters.
Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13. She has two children and three stepchildren.
Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman, and House of Sand and Fog, and his most recent novel, The Garden of Last Days, a New York Times bestseller. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for fiction, The Pushcart Prize, and was a Finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. An Academy Award-nominated motion picture, his novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the LA Times Book Prize, Booksense Book of the Year, and was an Oprah Book Club Selection and #1 NY Times bestseller.
A member of PEN American Center, Andre Dubus III has served as a panelist for The National Book Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, Emerson College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he is a full-time faculty member. He is married to performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.
To join these authors on May 7, please open and print the reservation form, fill it out, and mail it to us (address is on the form) along with your check (tickets starting at $36.00 per person). Please specify the names of those who will attend the event and indicate your preference for chicken, fish, or vegetarian entree for lunch. Be sure to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope so that we can mail your tickets to you. Reservations received after May 1 will be held at the door. For more information, please call 617-467-5101 or email us.