Will Weaver

Breaking: Kirkus Reviews calls Will Weaver's new novel POWER & LIGHT "A consuming work of great poetical depth and moral power." Will grew up in northern Minnesota on a farm. The landscape of small town life figures strongly in much of his writing. He has gained a national audience for his unflinching realism, and for what one reviewer called ". . . the humanity and decency that runs through all of Weaver's work" ( St. Paul Pioneer Press). His short story collection A GRAVESTONE MADE OF WHEAT was a New York Times "notable book." His books have been adapted for radio, stage and film. SWEET LAND, the feature film adaptation of his story "Gravestone Made of Wheat", starring Ned Beatty, premiered in October of 2006. SWEET LAND is also the title of his collection of short stories, which includes the film-inspiring story. His memoir, THE LAST HUNTER, is a closely described look at the arc of his family from tiny, immigrant homestead farm in North Dakota to post-modern America, a theme which returns in his new novel of the Midwest (see below). Weaver is also well known for his young adult fiction. MEMORY BOY, a post-apocalyptic novel based on environmental collapse, is widely used in junior and senior high schools across the United States. Other young adult novels include CLAWS and FULL SERVICE. His baseball trilogy STRIKING OUT, FARM TEAM and HARD BALL has a lasting place in high school libraries across the country. More recently are his SATURDAY NIGHT DIRT and its sequel, SUPER STOCK ROOKIE (2009), which focus on dirt track stock car racing. Reviewed on "Good Morning America," the MotorNovels were described as "great teen reads, and not just for boys." Weaver's long-awaited adult novel, POWER & LIGHT, dropped in October of 2023. A sequel will follow in late 2024. The two-book saga completes a cycle of the Scandinavian immigrant experience in the Midwest, covering three plus generations of the Haugen family who–against overwhelming odds– endure and prosper. An avid outdoorsman and popular public speaker, Will Weaver lives with his wife on the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota.