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Annie Proulx

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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 (Chinese:安妮 普鲁) 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 al ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 321,365 ratings · 25,544 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shipping News
3.88 avg rating — 152,091 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Brokeback Mountain
4.03 avg rating — 51,519 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Barkskins
3.83 avg rating — 20,340 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
3.99 avg rating — 18,372 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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Accordion Crimes
3.60 avg rating — 7,769 ratings — published 1996 — 81 editions
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That Old Ace in the Hole
3.81 avg rating — 6,132 ratings — published 2002
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Postcards
3.77 avg rating — 6,058 ratings — published 1992 — 54 editions
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Bad Dirt
3.98 avg rating — 4,086 ratings — published 2004 — 45 editions
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Fine Just the Way it Is
3.82 avg rating — 2,960 ratings — published 2008 — 48 editions
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short...
3.62 avg rating — 2,997 ratings — published 2022 — 16 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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Our genre for March...Literary/General Fiction! Here are the selections to choose from. Place your vote. The poll will end this Saturday, Feb. 13.

The Blind Assassin The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood
 
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State of Wonder State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett
 
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Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout
 
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The Mountain Story The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens Lori Lansens
 
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The Shipping News The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Annie Proulx
 
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Amsterdam Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Ian McEwan
 
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White Teeth White Teeth by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith
 
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The Tiger's Wife The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht Téa Obreht
 
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