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Annie Proulx

(E Annie Proulx)

(1935 - )

About Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx published her first novel Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novel, Accordion Crimes, and the bestselling short story collection, Close Range.

Series

Wyoming Stories
1. Close Range (1999)
2. Bad Dirt (2004)
3. Fine Just the Way It Is (omnibus) (2008)
Wyoming Stories Box Set (2008)

Novels

Postcards (1992)
The Shipping News (1993)
Accordion Crimes (1996)
Brokeback Mountain (1997)
That Old Ace in the Hole (2002)

Collections

Heart Songs: And Other Stories (1988)
Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories (2005)
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (2005) (with Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)

Plays

The Shipping News: Screenplay (2002) (with Robert Nelson Jacobs)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories (with John Edgar Wideman)
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997)

Non fiction

A Roaring in the Blood (2007)
Bird Cloud (2011)
Red Desert (2012)

Awards

	National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (1993) : The Shipping News
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (1993) : Postcards
	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1994) : The Shipping News
	Orange Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (1997) : Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx recommends

A Place in Mind (1989) Sydney Lea "A Place in Mind is full of brilliant images and strange poetic details, and the quality of writing is superb - so good it hurts to read it."	A Goat's Song (1994) Dermot Healy "A rare and powerful book."	Baltimore's Mansion (1999) Wayne Johnston "Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer, and his Newfoundland... is vivid and sharp."
The Whole Hog (2000) Aidan Higgins "Ferocious and dazzling... He is one of our great writers."	Little Infamies (2002) Panos Karnezis "The literary find of the year."	The Clearing (2002) Tim Gautreaux "The finest American novel in a long, long time."
Harbor (2004) Lorraine Adams "A strong and disturbing book."	Augusta Locke (2006) William Haywood Henderson "Some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature."	The End (2008) Salvatore Scibona "The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways."

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