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Annie Proulx

(E Annie Proulx)

(b.1935)

Annie Proulx published her first novel Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novel, Accordion Crimes, and the bestselling short story collection, Close Range.

Awards: NBA (2017), Pulitzer (1994), PEN (1993) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Wyoming Stories
   1. Close Range (1999)
   2. Bad Dirt (2004)
   Wyoming Stories Box Set (2008)

Novels

   Postcards (1992)
   The Shipping News (1993)
   Accordion Crimes (1996)
   Brokeback Mountain (1997)
   That Old Ace in the Hole (2002)
   Barkskins (2016)

Collections

   Heart Songs (1988)
   Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories (2005)
   Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (2005) (with Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)
   Wyoming Stories (2007)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997) (with John Edgar Wideman)

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Books containing stories by Annie Proulx

Why I Like This Story (2019)
edited by
Jackson R Bryer

Ghost (2015)
100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
edited by
Louise Welsh

Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar (2011)
Stories of Work
edited by
Richard Ford

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Awards

	2017 DCAL Medal
	1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : The Shipping News
	1993 PEN/Faulkner Award : Postcards
	1993 National Book Award for Fiction : The Shipping News

Award nominations

	2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Barkskins
	2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Close Range
	1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Close Range
	1997 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : Accordion Crimes
	1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Shipping News

Annie Proulx recommends

Clear (2024)
Carys Davies
"This intriguing and inventive story escorts the reader to an unexpectedly joyous ending that hints at our contemporary interest in new ideas of what a family might be. The writing style is one of clarity and reserved sensibility punctuated with an end-game needle jab. Not to be missed."

Walk the Darkness Down (2023)
Daniel Magariel
"The book's briny geography lies between Florida and Cape May-aboard a scallop-fishing vessel with a near-psychotic crew, in the kitchen of Marlene, derailed by an old and guilty grief, into the thoughts and violent actions of Les, her bedeviled husband. We catch our breath at the impulsive decisions of Josie, a young prostitute whom Marlene has befriended. Magariel is our Virgil, guiding us through this inferno with sentences like burning flags. The characters' chained lives chafe against each other. We work through the difficulties of tenderness, the luxury of hurtful words, the jagged psychologies of male bonding, loneliness, misunderstanding and isolation. We struggle with the characters to reclaim vanished affections, to face self-knowledge, and, finally, to try to repair the fragile cracked-glass splinters of love that lie underfoot. We long for the characters to make the right choices. This is one for readers who appreciate fine writing and can take punches from the shoulder."

Blue Skies (2023)
T C Boyle
"Is climate change funny? Yes, in the brilliantly imaginative T. C. Boyle's hands, in a terrifying way. Blue Skies is both comic and wrenching. . . . A black arrow of unimaginable horror shoots through the novel's center, and Boyle leads us to contemplate the 'inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything' -and a morsel of the world's inexpressible beauty."

After the Sun (2021)
Jonas Eika
"Striking literary craftsmanship in an experimental mix of shock-lit, sci-fi, dada and Joycean glints presented as loose time scenes that slide in and out like cards in the hands of the shuffler. By the end, this reader had the impression of having been drawn through a keyhole."

We Are Made of Earth (2019)
Panos Karnezis
"The Literary find of the year."

Drive your Plough over the Bones of the Dead (2018)
Olga Tokarczuk
"A writer on the level of W.G.Sebald."

Presidio (2018)
Randy Kennedy
"Here is a rich and rare book. Reader, if you like poor Texas boys gone bad (or not bad enough), landscapes so accurate in detail you feel you grew up there, coldly logical Mennonite girls with outcast Manitoban-Mexican papas, magnetic details about old cars, the finer points of an automobile-thieving, and a magisterial use of italics you will want to read this novel through twice in a row as I did. It is a hard picture of the choices offered to poor Texas youths in the 1960s and ’70s. You might say it shakes out as a weird combination of Canterbury Tales, Breaking Bad and À la recherche du temps perdu with a dash of Confederacy of Dunces, but it is brilliantly original. You will laugh, you will cry and you will read it again straight through to enjoy the fine points of marvelous writing. There is nothing out there like Presidio."

The Eight Mountains (2018)
Paolo Cognetti
"A fine book, a rich, achingly painful story that is made for all of us who have ever felt a hunger for the mountains. Few books have so accurately described the way stony heights can define one's sense of joy and rightness. And it is an exquisite unfolding of the deep way humans may love one another."

First Snow, Last Light (2017)
Wayne Johnston
"Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer."

The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep (2017)
Steven Heighton
"This book won’t let the reader sleep… a rich and disturbing literary thriller."

The Gargoyle Hunters (2017)
John Freeman Gill
"Yards and yards of beautiful writing."

The Alaskan Travels (2012)
Edward Hoagland
"Hoagland is our wild world's literary virtuoso."

The End (2008)
Salvatore Scibona
"The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways."

Harbor (2004)
Lorraine Adams
"A strong and disturbing book."

The Clearing (2002)
Tim Gautreaux
"The finest American novel in a long, long time."

The Whole Hog (2000)
Aidan Higgins
"Ferocious and dazzling... He is one of our great writers."

A Goat's Song (1994)
Dermot Healy
"A rare and powerful book."

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