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E. Annie Proulx Biography
Born: August 22, 1935
Norwich, Connecticut
American writer
E. Annie Proulx won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News.
Early life and education
Edna Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, the first of George Napoleon Proulx and Lois Nelly Gill Proulx's five children. Proulx's father was the vice president of a textile company. His family had come to the United States from Quebec, Canada. The family often moved to different places in New England and North Carolina because of her father's job. Her mother, a painter, encouraged her to notice everything around her. She was taught to observe the activities of ants and to notice every detail, the feeling of fabrics, and the unique parts of people's faces.
Proulx attended Colby College in Maine briefly in the 1950s but left to work different jobs, including waiting tables and working at the post office. She received a bachelor's degree in h
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E. Annie Proulx (Edna Annie Proulx) Biography
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(1935– ), (Edna Annie Proulx), Heartsongs and Other Stories, Postcards, The Shipping News
Americannovelist, born in Connecticut, educated at the University of Vermont. She has worked as a journalist, travelled to the Far East, lived in New York City, and has spent most of her life in Vermont. Her collection of stories Heartsongs and Other Stories (1988) and her novels Postcards (1991) and The Shipping News (1993; Pulitzer Prize, 1994) have received high acclaim. Set in an almost mythical Newfoundland, The Shipping News tells the story of Quoyle, a frustrated journalist who moves there from New York with an aunt and two eccentric daughters when an accident kills his wife. Proulx's witty, sharp, and evocative prose style, her sense of North American history and landscape, and her resolutely unspectacular post-modern stance appeal to critics and general readers alike; she is a comic writer in a growing feminine tradition which includes such figures as Anne Tyler.
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Annie Proulx
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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 alEdna 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
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