Annie Proulx

Born in Connecticut in 1935, Annie Proulx studied history at the University of Vermont and later pursued graduate work at Concordia University. Before turning fully to literary fiction, she wrote nonfiction, magazine articles, and practical guides on subjects including gardening and rural life.

Proulx published her first story collection, Heart Songs and Other Stories, in 1988, followed by the novel Postcards, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, received both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.

Her short story “Brokeback Mountain,” first published in The New Yorker and later collected in Close Range: Wyoming Stories, became the basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Proulx has also received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.