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Maritta Wolff

Maritta Wolff
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Maritta Wolff

Maritta Wolff was born in 1918. Whistle Stop, her first novel, won the Avery Hopwood Award in 1940. A runaway bestseller, the book was also printed as a special Armed Forces edition for American troops during World War II. Whistle Stop was made into a movie (starring Ava Gardner) in 1946. In the next two decades, Ms. Wolff authored more than five novels, but she hid her final, unpublished manuscript in her refrigerator until her death in 2002. Recently rediscovered, that novel, Sudden Rain, is now available from Scribner.

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Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Whistle Stop
Sep 06, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Sudden Rain
Aug 30, 2012
Sudden Rain will be released on May 11, 2010 in eBook
May 11, 2010
Sudden Rain is now available in eBook
May 11, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Night Shift
Mar 09, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Whistle Stop
Mar 09, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Sudden Rain
Mar 09, 2009
Night Shift will be released on August 08, 2006 in
Aug 08, 2006
Night Shift is now available in
Aug 08, 2006
Night Shift will be released on August 08, 2006 in
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Night Shift is now available in
Aug 08, 2006
Sudden Rain will be released on August 08, 2006 in
Aug 08, 2006
Sudden Rain is now available in
Aug 08, 2006
Whistle Stop will be released on April 05, 2005 in
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Whistle Stop is now available in
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Whistle Stop will be released on April 05, 2005 in
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City Pulse, July 25, 2012
...Ink Trails” led him to “a wealth of [Michigan] writers who are totally forgotten.” Among the liveliest is Maritta Wolff, who was born in Grass Lake, went to college down the road in Ann Arbor and, at 23, published the blockbuster novel “Whistle...
South Bend Tribune, November 25, 2012
...Both symbolize movement, creativity, yearning for change. LANSING -- For novelist-to-be Maritta Wolff, the stone train station at Grass Lake near her grandparents' farm in Jackson County represented escape from small-town living. Twenty years ago, and...
City Pulse, July 25, 2012
...Ink Trails” led him to “a wealth of [Michigan] writers who are totally forgotten.” Among the liveliest is Maritta Wolff, who was born in Grass Lake, went to college down the road in Ann Arbor and, at 23, published the blockbuster novel “Whistle...