caught her before she fell off the edge. In Shreve's version, Mary fell off the edge and died. Shreve was a cheerful person, but her stories were often tragic. She continued to work as a freelance journalist. In 1999, while she was teaching Creative Writing at Amherst College, Oprah Winfrey called, selecting The Pilot's Wife for her book club. Since then, Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. In 2000, her novel The Weight of Water was made into a movie of the same title, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, and Elizabeth Hurley. Two years later, her novel Resistance became a film of the same name and starred Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond. That same year, CBS released The Pilot's Wife as a movie of the week starring Christine Lahti and John Heard. Death and legacy She died on March 29, 2018, at her home at Newfields, New Hampshire, from cancer. She was 71. After her death, her husband John Osborn donated a collection of her books to Dedham High School. The books were given at a special ceremony attended by Osborn and several of her classmates. The books are displayed in a special case in the library with a commemorative plaque. Awards and honors 2000: Short-listed for the Orange Prize, The Weight of Water 1999: Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, The Pilot's Wife 1998: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Weight of Water 1976: O. Henry Prize, Past the Island, Drifting Bibliography Fiction Past the Island, Drifting (1975) Eden Close (1989) Strange Fits of Passion (1991) Where or When (1993) Resistance (1995) The Weight of Water (1997) (Shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize) The Pilot's Wife (1998) Fortune's Rocks (1999) The Last Time They Met (2001) Sea Glass (2002) All He Ever Wanted (2003) Light on Snow (2004) A Wedding in December (2005) Body Surfing (2007) Testimony (2008) A Change in Altitude (2009) Rescue (2010) Stella Bain (2013) The Stars Are Fire (2017) Nonfiction Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers are Shaping Our Children's Future (1987) Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement (1989) References External links Anita Shreve website 1946 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women short story writers American women novelists Amherst College faculty People from Hampden County, Massachusetts Tufts University alumni Writers from Dedham, Massachusetts 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century