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Annie Proulx

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in Norwich, Connecticut, The United States

August 22, 1935

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Cooking, Food & Wine

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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 al ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 321,146 ratings · 25,517 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 152,037 ratings — published 1993 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brokeback Mountain 4.03 avg rating — 51,434 ratings — published 1997 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barkskins 3.83 avg rating — 20,327 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close Range: Wyoming Stories 3.99 avg rating — 18,367 ratings — published 1999 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accordion Crimes 3.60 avg rating — 7,768 ratings — published 1996 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Old Ace in the Hole 3.81 avg rating — 6,126 ratings — published 2002 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcards 3.77 avg rating — 6,057 ratings — published 1992 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Dirt 3.98 avg rating — 4,084 ratings — published 2004 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fine Just the Way it Is 3.82 avg rating — 2,962 ratings — published 2008 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis 3.63 avg rating — 2,989 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

tags: infatuation, love-quotes, obsession, true-love

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