Annie Proulx

At 88 years old, Annie Proulx has this physical status:

Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A.

Proulx.She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards.

Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name.

Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005.

Personal life

Proulx was born Edna Ann Proulx in Norwich, Connecticut, to Lois Nellie (née Gill) and Georges-Napoléon Proulx. Her first name honored one of her mother's aunts. She is of English and French-Canadian ancestry. Her maternal forebears came to America in 1635, 15 years after the Mayflower arrived.

She graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, then attended Colby College "for a short period in the 1950s", where she met her first husband, H. Ridgely Bullock, Jr. She later returned to college, studying at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in history in 1969. She earned her M.A. from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Quebec in 1973 and pursued, but did not complete, a Ph.D. In 1999, Concordia awarded her an honorary doctorate.

Proulx lived for more than 30 years in Vermont, has married and divorced three times, and has three sons and a daughter (Jonathan, Gillis, Morgan, and Sylvia). In 1994, she moved to Saratoga, Wyoming, spending part of the year in northern Newfoundland on a small cove adjacent to L'Anse aux Meadows. As of 2019, Proulx lived in Port Townsend, Washington.

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Writing career and recognition

She began as a writer, and "The Customs Lounge," a science fiction tale published in the September 1963 issue of If, under the heading "E.A. Proulx is a French word that means "proulx."

All the Pretty Little Horses," a year later, appeared in the teen magazine Seventeen in June 1964. She began publishing stories in Esquire magazine and Gray's Sporting Journal in the 1970s and 1992, eventually releasing her first collection in 1988 and her first book in 1992. In 1992, she was given a NEA fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1993.

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Proulx received the Dos Passos Prize in 1997, a mid-career award for American writers. Proulx has twice been voted twice for the year's best short story. She was named for "Brokeback Peak" in 1998, which had appeared in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997. Proulx won again this year for his novel "The Mud Below," which appeared in The New Yorker on June 22, 1999, and March 29, 1999. Both stories appear in Close Range: Wyoming Stories, a 1999 collection of short stories. Author Garrison Keillor selected "The Half-Skinned Steer" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999), then by novelist John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999).

Brian Reynolds Myers chastised Proulx in 2001 for using nonsensical images, mixed metaphors, and poor word choice.

Charles Wuorinen, a composer from the United Kingdom, approached Proulx in 2007 with the proposal to turn her short story "Brokeback Mountain" into an opera. Proulx's libretto debuted at the Teatro Real in Madrid on January 28, 2014. It was lauded as a often innovative adaptation that clearly expressed the libretto's text with music that is rich in imagination and variety. In 2017, she was given the Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature for the first year.

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Awards and recognition

• 1993—PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Postcards)
• 1993—Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction The Shipping News
• 1993—Irish Times International Fiction Prize The Shipping News
• 1993—National Book Award, Fiction The Shipping News
• 1994—Pulitzer Prize, Fiction The Shipping News
• 1997—Shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize (Accordion Crimes)
• 1997—John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (for body of work)
• 1998—"Half-Skinned Steer", The Best American Short Stories 1998
• 1998—"Brokeback Mountain", O. Henry Awards O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 1998
• 1998—"Brokeback Mountain", National Magazine Award
• 1999—"The Mud Below," O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 1999
• 1999—"The Bunchgrass Edge of the World," The Best American Short Stories 1999
• 1999—"Half-Skinned Steer", The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike
• 2000—The New Yorker Book Award, Best Fiction 1999 (Close Range: Wyoming Stories)
• 2000—English-Speaking Union's Ambassador Book Award (Close Range: Wyoming Stories)
• 2000—"People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," The Best American Short Stories 2000
• 2000—Borders Original Voices Award in Fiction (Close Range, Wyoming Stories)
• 2000—WILLA Literary Award, Women Writing the West
• 2002—Best Foreign Language Novels of 2002 / Best American Novel Award, Chinese Publishing Association and Peoples' Literature Publishing House (That Old Ace in the Hole)
• 2004—Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for "The Wamsutter Wolf"
• 2012—United States Artists Fellow award
• 2017—National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (lifetime achievement)
• 2018—Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction