Annie Proulx (Author of The Shipping News)
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Annie Proulx


Born
in Norwich, Connecticut, The United States
August 22, 1935

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Cooking, Food & Wine


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 used the name ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 300,257 ratings · 22,428 reviews · 103 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shipping News
3.88 avg rating — 146,482 ratings — published 1993 — 146 editions
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Brokeback Mountain
3.99 avg rating — 44,664 ratings — published 1997 — 41 editions
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Barkskins
3.82 avg rating — 19,050 ratings — published 2016 — 44 editions
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
3.99 avg rating — 17,198 ratings — published 1999 — 100 editions
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Accordion Crimes
3.60 avg rating — 7,518 ratings — published 1996 — 70 editions
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That Old Ace in the Hole
3.79 avg rating — 5,786 ratings — published 2002 — 53 editions
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Postcards
3.76 avg rating — 5,792 ratings — 47 editions
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Bad Dirt
3.98 avg rating — 3,825 ratings — published 2004 — 44 editions
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Fine Just the Way it Is
3.82 avg rating — 2,833 ratings — published 2008 — 45 editions
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
3.95 avg rating — 2,400 ratings — published 1988 — 34 editions
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories Bad Dirt Fine Just the Way it Is
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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx
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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx
tags: reading, words, writing
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“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
tags: infatuation, love-quotes, obsession, true-love
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