Annie Proulx is an American novelist and short-story writer, born on 22 August 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut. She came to fiction late, after years of journalism: her first novel, Postcards (1992), won the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Shipping News (1993) received both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her Wyoming Stories — Close Range (1999), Bad Dirt (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) — include “Brokeback Mountain”, adapted for the screen in 2005. Her other novels include Accordion Crimes (1996), That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) and Barkskins (2016).
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Annie Proulx is an American novelist and short-story writer, born on 22 August 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut. She came to fiction late, after years of journalism: her first novel, Postcards (1992), won the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Shipping News (1993) received both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her Wyoming Stories — Close Range (1999), Bad Dirt (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) — include “Brokeback Mountain”, adapted for the screen in 2005. Her other novels include Accordion Crimes (1996), That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) and Barkskins (2016).
