Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist. He has written most often as Annie Proulx but also uses the names of E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx .
She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards . His second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award. for Fiction and adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. His short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award released in 2005.
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Personal life
Proulx was born Edna Ann Proulx in Norwich, Connecticut, daughter of Lois Nellie (Gill) and George Napoleon Proulx. Her first name honors one of her mother's aunts. He is of British and French-Canadian descent. His mother's ancestors came to America fifteen years after Mayflower, in 1635. He graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, then attended Colby College "for a brief period in the 1950s," in which he met her first husband H. Ridgely Bullock, Jr. He then returned to college, studied at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in History in 1969. He earned his 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 gave her an honorary doctorate.
Proulx has lived for more than 30 years in Vermont, married and divorced three times, and has three sons and a daughter (named Jonathan, Gillis, Morgan, and Sylvia). In 1994, he moved to Saratoga, Wyoming, spending part of the year in northern Newfoundland in a small bay adjacent to L'Anse aux Meadows. Proulx now lives in Seattle, Washington.
Proulx has four sisters: the twins Joyce and Janet, who live in Louisiana and Florida; Roberta, from Fairlee, Vermont; and Jude, another writer who lives in Wales.
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Writing career and recognition
Beginning as a journalist, his first published fictional work was regarded as "The Customs Lounge", a science fiction story published in the September 1963 edition of If , under the "E.A. Proulx" byline. Another challenger, a year later, is a science fiction story entitled "All the Pretty Little Horses", which appeared in Seventeen teen magazine in June 1964. He later published a story on Esquire magazine and Gray's Sporting Journal in the late 1970s, finally published his first collection in 1988 and his first novel in 1992. Subsequently, he was awarded a NEA scholarship (in 1992) and Guggenheim (in 1993 ).
A few years after receiving much attention for The Shipping News , she has the following comments on celebrity status:
This is not good for one's view of human nature, that's for sure. You begin to see, when the invitations come from festivals and colleges to come read (for an hour for a large sum of money), that the agencies are hunting heads for the trophy writers. Most do not really care about your writing or what you're trying to say. You are there as a human object, which has won a prize. It gives you a very strange sensation, kind of ginger.
In 1997, Annie Proulx was awarded the Dos Passos Prize, a mid-career award for American writers. Proulx has twice won O. Henry Prize for the best short story of the year. In 1998, he won for "Brokeback Mountain", which appeared in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997. Proulx won another year for "The Mud Below," which appeared on The New Yorker 22 and 29 June 1999. Both appeared in his short story collection in 1999, Close Range: Wyoming Stories . The main story in this collection, entitled "The Half-Skinned Steer", was chosen by writer Garrison Keillor for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1998, (Proulx itself edited the 1997 edition of this series) and later by novelist John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999). In 2001 Proulx was one of the authors strongly criticized by Brian Reynolds Myers in his polemical Manual Manifesto Reader .
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