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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 · 319,592 ratings · 25,272 reviews · 112 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shipping News
3.88 avg rating — 151,637 ratings — published 1993 — 143 editions
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Brokeback Mountain
4.02 avg rating — 50,935 ratings — published 1997 — 104 editions
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Barkskins
3.83 avg rating — 20,241 ratings — published 2016 — 46 editions
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
3.99 avg rating — 18,273 ratings — published 1999 — 103 editions
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Accordion Crimes
3.60 avg rating — 7,746 ratings — published 1996 — 81 editions
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That Old Ace in the Hole
3.81 avg rating — 6,102 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Postcards
3.77 avg rating — 6,043 ratings — published 1992 — 52 editions
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Bad Dirt
3.98 avg rating — 4,066 ratings — published 2004 — 45 editions
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Fine Just the Way it Is
3.82 avg rating — 2,950 ratings — published 2008 — 48 editions
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short...
3.63 avg rating — 2,941 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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