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Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent book is Fine Just the Way It Is. She lives in Wyoming.

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Excerpt 1 from Heart Songs and Other Stories
Dec 08, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from That Old Ace in the Hole
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Postcards
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Shipping News
Dec 07, 2012
Bird Cloud will be released on September 27, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Sep 27, 2011
Bird Cloud is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 27, 2011
The Shipping News will be released on March 15, 2011 in eAudio
Mar 15, 2011
The Shipping News is now available in eAudio
Mar 15, 2011
Accordion Crimes will be released on March 08, 2011 in
Mar 08, 2011
Accordion Crimes is now available in
Mar 08, 2011
That Old Ace in the Hole will be released on March 08, 2011 in
Mar 08, 2011
That Old Ace in the Hole is now available in
Mar 08, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Bird Cloud
Jan 15, 2011
Bird Cloud is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Jan 04, 2011
Bird Cloud will be released on January 04, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Jan 04, 2011
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Bird Cloud
Dec 29, 2010

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Guardian.co.uk, April 9, 2013
...story , benefiting new and established writers. We talk about such short-story masters as Somerset Maugham , Stephen King and Annie Proulx , and why the publishing industry has never quite managed to market the form. "A lot of the best short fiction...
The Prospector, April 9, 2013
...$15,000 and be placed among the honorable list of recognizable winners such as Ann Patchett, John Updike, Annie Proulx, Deborah Eisenberg and Sherman Alexie. Andrea Acosta may be reached at prospector@utep.edu...
Denver Post, April 7, 2013
...and the event is a fundraiser for the Denver Public Library. Previous recipients include Tom McGuane, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Jim Harrison and Colorado's own Kent Haruf, who attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop with Hansen. Hansen's work rolls...
Guardian.co.uk, April 6, 2013
...Thirty years ago, Granta named our 20 most promising young writers – and established a tradition. The judges for the last three decades reflect on their decisions, while the magazine's current editor reveals the challenges of choosing this year's...
Time Out Chicago, April 3, 2013
...accoutrements into the sculpture Palletized Material for the Construction of a Space Based on the Writings of E. Annie Proulx, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver and Cormac McCarthy (2013). New York–based Gareth Long collaborates with Sebura &...
El Paso Inc, March 25, 2013
...of an elite group of literary luminaries including Sherman Alexie, T.C. Boyle, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, Peter Taylor, John Updike, John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff. Winners receive a check for $15,000 and the...
UTEP Prospector, March 21, 2013
...on May 4. Previous winners include E.L. Doctorow, Ann Patchett, Philip Roth, John Updike, Sherman Alexie, and Annie Proulx. “He's, quite frankly, a brilliant writer, and as a friend and as a colleague he has been incredibly supportive,” Chacon...
Melbourne Age, January 18, 2013
...FICTION By T.C. Boyle Bloomsbury, $29.99 LIKE Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy, T. C. Boyle hasn't just invented a fictional universe. His books have become an ecosystem, and in each new work, landscape is the ultimate character...
Gay.net, January 18, 2013
...Brokeback Mountain. You should watch The Wedding Banquet (which got nominated for Best Foreign Film) and read the Annie Proulx short story Brokeback Mountain to enjoy all the rich language and backstory missing from Lee's adaptation. Phillip Seymour...
Baltimore Sun, January 11, 2013
...contemporaries such as David Simon and Laura Lippman. As for Denver's history? Novelist Jenny Shank's listed Annie Proulx and a few other notables last year. Though she noted the city's current robust literary culture, she lamented that "Denver has no...
Albuquerque Journal, January 6, 2013
..." according to an excerpt from Franklin's letter that Bodio quotes. In the introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx writes that "Bodio's beautifully written and authoritative book ‘Eagles' is a primary source of information as well...
Sydney Morning Herald, December 31, 2012
...well with Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm (1997) – sex in the suburbs, 1970s-style – and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he won an Oscar. Now he's in line for another one with Life of Pi, Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked...
Melbourne Age, December 30, 2012
...well with Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm (1997) – sex in the suburbs, 1970s-style – and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he won an Oscar. Now he's in line for another one with Life of Pi, Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked...
Sydney Morning Herald, December 30, 2012
...well with Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm (1997) – sex in the suburbs, 1970s-style – and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he won an Oscar. Now he's in line for another one with Life of Pi, Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked...