Annie Proulx

Born in Norwich, Connecticut, on August 22, 1935, Annie Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has also published as E. Annie Proulx and E. A. Proulx, and she is widely admired for writing that is exact, atmospheric, and deeply rooted in place.

She came to fiction after years of other work, including journalism, and became especially well known for stories set in Wyoming, Newfoundland, and other rugged landscapes. Her best-known books include The Shipping News, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the story "Brokeback Mountain," which introduced many readers to her spare, powerful style.

Across her work, she returns again and again to the ways people are shaped by weather, labor, history, and the land itself. That mix of toughness, humor, and emotional clarity has made her one of the most distinctive American writers of her generation.