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| Anita Shreve, Best-Selling Novelist, Dies at 71 | Anita Shreve, Best-Selling Novelist, Dies at 71 |
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| Anita Shreve, a best-selling author whose novels explored change, loss and troubled marriages, often against the backdrop of a real historical event, died on Thursday at her home in Newfields, N.H. She was 71. | Anita Shreve, a best-selling author whose novels explored change, loss and troubled marriages, often against the backdrop of a real historical event, died on Thursday at her home in Newfields, N.H. She was 71. |
| Her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said the cause was cancer. | Her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said the cause was cancer. |
| Ms. Shreve was born on Oct. 7, 1946. She was a freelance magazine writer and a high school teacher before she tried her hand at writing novels. Her first, “Eden Close,” about a long-ago crime and its aftermath, was published in 1989. | Ms. Shreve was born on Oct. 7, 1946. She was a freelance magazine writer and a high school teacher before she tried her hand at writing novels. Her first, “Eden Close,” about a long-ago crime and its aftermath, was published in 1989. |
| “ ‘Eden Close’ is not a novel of suspense but one of sensibility,” Carolyn Banks wrote in reviewing it for The New York Times. “Its insights are keen, its language measured and haunting.” | “ ‘Eden Close’ is not a novel of suspense but one of sensibility,” Carolyn Banks wrote in reviewing it for The New York Times. “Its insights are keen, its language measured and haunting.” |
| Ms. Shreve’s career, and her book sales, got a big boost in 1999 when Oprah Winfrey chose “The Pilot’s Wife” (1998), a book about a woman whose husband dies in a plane crash, for Oprah’s Book Club. | Ms. Shreve’s career, and her book sales, got a big boost in 1999 when Oprah Winfrey chose “The Pilot’s Wife” (1998), a book about a woman whose husband dies in a plane crash, for Oprah’s Book Club. |
| “I’m still a bit stunned,” Ms. Shreve told The Boston Globe after Ms. Winfrey called her personally to give her the news. The book was made into a 2002 television movie starring Christine Lahti. | “I’m still a bit stunned,” Ms. Shreve told The Boston Globe after Ms. Winfrey called her personally to give her the news. The book was made into a 2002 television movie starring Christine Lahti. |
| In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Shreve said that several of her books, including “The Pilot’s Wife,” had been inspired, in a sense, by one particular white-clapboard house on the coast of Maine, near where she spent her summer vacations. | In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Shreve said that several of her books, including “The Pilot’s Wife,” had been inspired, in a sense, by one particular white-clapboard house on the coast of Maine, near where she spent her summer vacations. |
| She did not own the house, and in fact had never been in it, she said, but she took a picture of it, hung it over her desk and — relocating the house depending on the setting of her story — imagined people living there and the events that transformed their lives. | She did not own the house, and in fact had never been in it, she said, but she took a picture of it, hung it over her desk and — relocating the house depending on the setting of her story — imagined people living there and the events that transformed their lives. |
| Often those events drew on actual ones. “The Pilot’s Wife,” she said, germinated when she overheard a snippet of conversation about a plane crash at a party. “Sea Glass” (2002), another book that used the house as a setting, was set against the Great Depression. | Often those events drew on actual ones. “The Pilot’s Wife,” she said, germinated when she overheard a snippet of conversation about a plane crash at a party. “Sea Glass” (2002), another book that used the house as a setting, was set against the Great Depression. |
| “Testimony” (2008) was inspired by real-life scandals involving boarding schools. And her most recent book, “The Stars Are Fire,” published last year, draws on devastating wildfires that struck Maine in 1947. | “Testimony” (2008) was inspired by real-life scandals involving boarding schools. And her most recent book, “The Stars Are Fire,” published last year, draws on devastating wildfires that struck Maine in 1947. |
| A complete obituary will appear soon. |