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“It was the perfect time.”

from the novel, Memory Boy

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Hi, I’m Will Weaver.

I’m a writer from the upper Midwest. I live in northern Minnesota on the Mississippi River not from its headwaters. I’ve published novels with Farrar Straus and Giroux, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and have had two film adaptations. I lead both an outdoor and a literary life. In 2011 I was a fiction judge for the National Book Awards, but I also love snowshoeing across a silent snowy field. If you’re a reader or writer on your own path, thanks for visiting my site. You’ll find fiction and nonfiction for adults and young adults. If you enjoy the conversation of a literary life, take a look at my blog, “In The Write.”

–-New!  SWEET LAND, the award-winning indie film adaptation of my short story “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” is now streaming on Amazon Prime. With Alan Cumming, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty and Tim Guinee. Directed by Ali Selim.

  "Weaver writes with both lyrical excitement and gritty power."  (San Francisco Chronicle)   "Weaver's characters are rendered in the manner of Steinbeck's people... [with] compassion and values rarely found in today's literature." (Chicago Sun-Times) "Makes you feel good about the state of American fiction." (Cleveland Plain Dealer) "Views America's heartland with a candid but charitable eye..." (The New Yorker)  

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Memory Boy

Memory Boy

The post-apocalyptic future is near, and the Newell family escape to the safety of their summer cabin to survive in the new world.

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SweetLand

Sweet Land

A collection of hand-picked stories that offer a vivid portrait of swirling, intergenerational changes in the Midwest.

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The Survivors

The Survivors

Two years ago, the ash started falling like gray snow. Now Miles and Sarah must adapt to a changing world.

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Full Service

Full Service

In the summer of '65, high school sophomore-to-be Paul lands a job outside his communal farm, and begins to see the real nature of adults.

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In the Write

If you write and like books, this blog's for you.

books and boys

Minding the (Reading) Gap

July 4th, 2020

(Glasshouse Images/Alamy Photos) I recently kicked the hornet’s nest on Twitter.  A Minnesota author I know posted a cover photo of her forthcoming young adult…

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beginning a novel

A Question About Your Novel?

June 30th, 2019

Why? For what reason are you writing it? The subject is no small matter. Freud maintained that we do things for one or more of…

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Fiction Writing Tips

Restarting Your Novel

May 1st, 2019

Let’s say a good chunk of your novel is done. But then real life catches up with you. Family, work, health– any of the zillion…

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Will Weaver Books

Will Weaver writes young adult and adult fiction and non-fiction. In addition to writing, Weaver became a creative-writing teacher at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, MN, where he resides with his wife Rose.

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