Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935 in Connecticut USA, the state where her mother’s family of farmers, mill workers, inventors and artists have lived since 1635, but has spent most of her life in Vermont. She is the eldest of five girls.

She has three sons. Her interests include cooking, music, wine, fly-fishing, good conversation, canoeing, camping, bird hunting, gardening, landscape work, carpentry, painting, homemade bread, knots, and wood-lore. She describes herself as an ‘omnivorous reader, happy with a mining journal or a speed-boat-freak-mag if nothing else is available’. She likes the cold and snow, sharp seasonal changes, weather extremes.

E. Annie Proulx wrote her first novel, ‘Postcards’, in her fifties and followed it with ‘The Shipping News’, which won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the US National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1994. In April 1998 she was presented with the US National Magazine Award for excellence in Fiction. She is also the author of a short-story collection, ‘Heart Songs’ (Fourth Estate 1994). ‘Accordion Crimes’, was published by Fourth Estate in October 1996, and was followed by the publication of ‘Brokeback Mountain’, a short story which was published alone in October 1998. ‘Close Range’, a collection of short stories (which includes ‘Brokeback Mountain’) was published in June 1999.

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The Shipping News - Fourth Estate 25th anniversary edition Annie Proulx This novel has become a modern classic and deservedly so. Telling the story of Quoyle, who on the death of his wife moves the farthest reaches of Newfoundland. Tear and laughter abound in this story of a man trying to... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/04/2009 Lovereading Price: £22.50 - Saving £7.50 (25%)

Bad Dirt Annie Proulx Pulitzer (the top American literary prize) prize-winning author of The Shipping News with a collection of short stories set in Wyoming. Every story is a stunner. Displaying wit, her knowledge of the West, of history, of ranching and farming, she... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2005 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Shipping News Annie Proulx May 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. On My Bookshelf by Nicci French...I have never met anyone who has read E Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News and not fallen in love with it. It has an odd cast of characters, awkward, bruised,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/1994 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)