She has published fifteen novels, most recently More News Tomorrow (2019), and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007).

[1] She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011), and edited or co-edited five anthologies.

[citation needed] She founded the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980[4] and has taught there ever since.

[7] Shreve wrote about her experience as a patient at FDR's polio clinic in her memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007).

[citation needed] Shreve later married noted literary agent Timothy Seldes.