Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels.
16 Facts About Anita Shreve
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Anita Shreve was a member of the Dedham High School class of 1964.
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Anita Shreve's father, Richard Harold Shreve, was an airline pilot for Delta Air Lines and later a trompe l'oeil painter, while her mother, Bibiana Kennedy, was a homemaker.
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Anita Shreve graduated from Tufts University and was a member of Chi Omega.
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Anita Shreve married Jack Christensen, her first husband, while he finished his medical degree at Harvard Medical School.
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Anita Shreve met her second husband, Clay Wescott, at Reading Memorial High School, where they were teachers.
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Wescott and Anita Shreve married in 1975, and went to Kenya together, where Wescott got a job with the Harvard Institute for International Development while finishing his PhD.
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Anita Shreve was married for a fourth time, in 1999, to John Osborn, an insurance broker, and remained with him until her death.
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Anita Shreve taught at Reading Memorial High School before shifting to Hingham High School.
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Anita Shreve wanted to become a writer, but it wasn't easy.
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Wescott and Anita Shreve had a wall of their apartment covered with all the rejection notices she received.
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One book, A Change in Altitude, was a fictional account about a climb to the top of Mount Kenya that Wescott and Anita Shreve did with their friends Mary and Richard Oates.
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Anita Shreve was a cheerful person, but her stories were often tragic.
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Since then, Anita Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
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Anita Shreve died on March 29,2018, aged 71, at her home at Newfields, New Hampshire, from cancer.
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Anita Shreve's widower, John Osborn, donated a collection of her books to Dedham High School.