Annie Proulx

Author of The Shipping News

43+ Works 32,575 Members 747 Reviews 137 Favorited

About the Author

Edna Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned an M. A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1973. She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications, and was the author of show more several "how-to" books before beginning to write fiction in her 50s. She became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for her debut novel Postcards. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1994. Accordion Crimes, published in 1996, won the Dos Passos Prize for literature. She also won the O. Henry prize for the year's best short story twice; in 1998 for Brokeback Mountain and in 1999 for The Mud Below. She has written more than 50 articles and stories for periodicals and edited Best American Short Stories of 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Annie Proulx

Popular Recent

The Shipping News (1993) 13,480 copies

Close Range (1999) 3,460 copies

Accordion Crimes (1996) 2,864 copies

Brokeback Mountain (1997) 2,720 copies

Postcards (1992) 2,022 copies

That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) 1,814 copies

Barkskins (2016) 1,560 copies

Bad Dirt (2004) 1,078 copies

Heart Songs : and other stories (1988) 870 copies

Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) 741 copies

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (2005) 468 copies

Bird Cloud: A Memoir (2011) 438 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997) — Editor & Introduction — 337 copies

Cider: Making, Using and Enjoying Sweet and Hard Cider (1980) 268 copies

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (2022) 223 copies

Making the Best Apple Cider (1983) 67 copies

Great Grapes! Grow the Best Ever (1980) 32 copies

Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives (1983) 17 copies

The Complete Dairy Foods Cookbook: How to Make Everything From Cheese to Custard in Your Own Kitchen (1982) 16 copies

The Gourmet Gardener: Growing Choice Fruits and Vegetables with Spectacular Results (1987) 15 copies

Red Desert: History of a Place (2008) 13 copies

The Fine Art of Salad Gardening (1985) 10 copies

Gardener's Journal and Record Book (1983) 9 copies

Jeffrey Silverthorne Directions (2010) 7 copies

Back to Barter: What'll You Take for It? (1980) 7 copies

Steenstad (1988) 6 copies

The Photographs of Carl Mydans: The Library of Congress (Fields of Vision) (2011) 6 copies

A Roaring in the Blood: Remembering Robert F. Jones (2007) 5 copies

Make Your Own Insulated Window Shutters 3 copies

Fiction, flyfishing & the search for innocence (1994) 3 copies

Stories from Heart Songs 2 copies

Storie del Wyoming (2006) 2 copies

The Power of the Dog (Vintage Classics) 2 copies

E. Annie Proulx 4 volume set: Postcards, Accordion Crimes, That Old Ace in the Hole, The Shipping News (2003) 1 copy

The Half-Skinned Steer 1 copy

Scheepsberichten [gratis voorpublikatie] 1 copy

Proulx, Annie Archive 1 copy

Cheeta : My Story (UK HB 1st impression) 1 copy

Gevaarlĳk terrein: Het landschap in de Amerikaanse literatuur (1999) 1 copy

People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (in The Best American Short Stories 2000 - KENISON) 1 copy

What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick? (in The Best American Short Stories 2004 - KENISON) 1 copy

Them Old Cowboy Songs 1 copy

1997 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contributor — 1,568 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Contributor — 557 copies

The Power of the Dog (1967) — Translator, some editions — 552 copies

Brokeback Mountain [2005 film] (2005) — Original story — 532 copies

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 516 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) — Contributor — 455 copies

Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributor — 447 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 406 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 396 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 362 copies

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contributor — 214 copies

The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (2010) — Contributor — 155 copies

Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 141 copies

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 126 copies

Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 118 copies

The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 93 copies

These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Contributor — 91 copies

Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (1994) — Contributor — 61 copies

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contributor — 56 copies

Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies

The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Contributor — 27 copies

The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contributor — 21 copies

Horse Stories (2012) — Contributor — 16 copies

Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology (2014) — Contributor — 5 copies

Telling Stories: The Best of BBC Radio's Recent Short Fiction v. 4 (1995) — Contributor — 5 copies

Presentask med fyra noveller om kärlek II (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Journeys (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Proulx, Annie
Legal name: Proulx, Edna Ann
Other names: Proulx, E. Annie
Proulx, E. A.
Birthdate: 1935-08-22
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Places of residence: Vermont, USA
Wyoming, USA
Norwich, Connecticut, USA (birth)
Newfoundland, Canada
Seattle, Washington, USA
Education: Deering High School, Portland, Maine, USA
University of Vermont (BA|1969)
Sir George Williams University (MA|1973)
Occupations: short-story writer
journalist
novelist
Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2007)
Awards and honors: John Dos Passos Prize (1997)
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award (2017)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)
O. Henry Prize (1998 and 1999)
National Book Award (1993)
Agent: Liz Darhansoff (Darhansoff ∙ Verrill and Feldman)

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Discussions

Group Read: Barkskins by Annie Proulx in 75 Books Challenge for 2018 (March 2018)

Annie Proulx in Other People's Libraries (July 2016)

Reviews

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.”

Devastating. Beautiful. Proulx is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

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