Annie Proulx
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born
August 22, 1935
gender
female
place of birth
Norwich, Connecticut, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Cooking, Food & Wine
about this author
Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. Brokeback Mountain received massive critical acclaim and went on to be nominated for a leading eight Academy Awards, winning three of them. (However, the movie did not win Best Picture, a situation with which Proulx made public her disappointment.) She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards. She has written most of her stories and books simply as Annie Proulx, but has also use...more
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The Shipping News : A Novel by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.67 — 11,997 ratings — published 1993 45 editions |
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.90 — 2,437 ratings — published 1997 21 editions |
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Close Range : Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx avg rating 4.00 — 2,092 ratings — published 1999 19 editions |
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Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.43 — 1,097 ratings — published 1996 24 editions |
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Postcards by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.65 — 771 ratings — published 1992 17 editions |
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That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.67 — 756 ratings — published 2002 21 editions |
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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.92 — 596 ratings — published 2001 16 editions |
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Heart Songs and Other Stories by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.78 — 371 ratings — published 1988 14 editions |
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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx avg rating 3.56 — 350 ratings — published 2008 15 editions |
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The Best American Short Stories 1997 by Annie Proulx, Katrina Kenison avg rating 3.82 — 79 ratings — published 1997 2 editions |
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