Will Weaver
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| Born: | 1950 Minnesota |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genres: | Young Adult, Fantasy, Baseball |
Will Weaver (1950) is an American author, born and raised in northern Minnesota. His debut was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his hometown due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. The title story was produced in 2006 as the independent feature film Sweet Land, featuring Ned Beatty (who summers in Karlstad, Minnesota).
Weaver has also written many stories for young adults, including the Billy Baggs baseball novels Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball. He has also written Memory Boy, Claws, and Full Service.
Weaver is a creative-writing teacher at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota.[1] He resides in the area with his wife Rose, who is also a professor at Bemidji State, and his teenage children.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels and novellas
- Full Service (2005)
- Claws (2003)
- Memory Boy (2001)
- Hard Ball (1998)
- Farm Team (1995)
- Striking Out (1993)
- Red Earth, White Earth (1986)
[edit] Short story collections
- Sweet Land (2006)
- A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories (1989)
[edit] Nonfiction
- Barns of Minnesota (with Doug Ohman) (2005)
