Anita Shreve’s books are reliably engrossing literary page-turners, never formulaic — unless trouble and desire mixed with the vicissitudes of fortune can be called a formula. In almost 20 novels, ...

Her career took off in 1999 when Oprah Winfrey chose “The Pilot’s Wife” for Oprah’s Book Club. By Neil Genzlinger The beloved writer and best-selling author was 71. By Susan Ellingwood These books ...

Sea Glass, set in New Hampshire in 1929, tells the story of a travelling type-writer salesman, Sexton Beecher, who falls in love with and proposes to Honora Willard, a beautiful young woman who he ...