I wrote a full draft of my my most successful novel in three weeks. However, every novel is its own puzzle to solve, and it's…
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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)
Books
My World. Real and imagined. In Writing
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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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
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
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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If you write and like books, this blog's for you.
Another Good Question About Your Novel
I often get letters from former writing students, or friends of friends who are working on a novel, or complete strangers who have read one…
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Minding the (Reading) Gap
(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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