{"id":35245,"date":"2018-04-03T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/03\/author-anita-shreve-dies-aged-71\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:52:23","slug":"author-anita-shreve-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=35245","title":{"rendered":"Author Anita Shreve dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling novelist of 18 books, including The Weight of Water and The Pilot\u2019s Wife, died after \u2018a long and very private fight with cancer\u2019The bestselling novelist Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot\u2019s Wife, has died at the age of 71, after what her publisher called \u201ca long and very private fight with cancer\u201d.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. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/apr\/03\/author-anita-shreve-dies-aged-71-the-pilots-wife\" target=\"_blank\">Author Anita Shreve dies aged 71<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling novelist of 18 books, including The Weight of Water and The Pilot\u2019s Wife, died after \u2018a long and very private fight with cancer\u2019The bestselling novelist Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot\u2019s Wife, has died at the age of 71, after what her publisher called \u201ca long and very private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}