Meet Will Weaver
Club Book with Will Weaver
Thursday, October 14, 7 PMHardwood Creek Library, 19955 Forest Road N., Forest Lake
Will Weaver is an acclaimed author of fiction for adults and young adults. His debut novel, Red Earth, White Earth, was produced as a CBS television movie in 1989. A Gravestone Made of Wheat & Other Stories won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted into the award-winning, independent feature film Sweet Land. He is the winner of both the McKnight and the Bush Foundation’s prizes for fiction. His popular motor series for young adults include Checkered Flag Cheater, Saturday Night Dirt, and Super Stock Rookie. His newest work, The Last Hunter (September 2010), is an examination of family, life on the land, and those things we hold dear enough to want to carry along, one generation to another.
What do the critics say?
“Weaver fleshes each [character] out enough to leave a lasting impression on readers and make them curious to know what happens next.” — Publishers Weekly
“Librarians need to steer boys who tinker with internal combustion engines to Weaver's latest work.”— Kirkus Reviews
“. . . his stories view America's heartland with a candid but charitable eye.” - New York Times
“Weaver . . . is a writer of uncommon natural talent. He's that rare Real Thing, a writer writing eloquently, often between the lines but always with an undertow of passion about what he knows, where he lives, what he's been through.” - Los Angeles Times