Annie Proulx
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Edna Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned an M. A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1973. She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications, and was the author of mostra altro several "how-to" books before beginning to write fiction in her 50s. She became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for her debut novel Postcards. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1994. Accordion Crimes, published in 1996, won the Dos Passos Prize for literature. She also won the O. Henry prize for the year's best short story twice; in 1998 for Brokeback Mountain and in 1999 for The Mud Below. She has written more than 50 articles and stories for periodicals and edited Best American Short Stories of 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Annie Proulx
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (2022) 182 copie
The Complete Dairy Foods Cookbook: How to Make Everything From Cheese to Custard in Your Own Kitchen (1982) 15 copie
Stories from Heart Songs 2 copie
1997 1 copia
The Shipping News 1 copia
E. Annie Proulx 4 volume set: Postcards, Accordion Crimes, That Old Ace in the Hole, The Shipping News (2003) 1 copia
[FEN, BOG, & SWAMP. A short History of Peatland destruction and its Role in the climate crisis] ; Moorland :… (2023) 1 copia
Brokeback Mountain 1 copia
Proulx, Annie Archive 1 copia
The Half-Skinned Steer 1 copia
People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (in The Best American Short Stories 2000 - KENISON) 1 copia
What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick? (in The Best American Short Stories 2004 - KENISON) 1 copia
Them Old Cowboy Songs 1 copia
Complete dairy foods cookbook 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Collaboratore — 495 copie
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Collaboratore — 135 copie
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Collaboratore — 115 copie
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Collaboratore — 87 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Proulx, Annie
- Nome legale
- Proulx, Edna Ann
- Altri nomi
- Proulx, E. Annie
Proulx, E. A. - Data di nascita
- 1935-08-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Norwich, Connecticut, USA
- Istruzione
- Deering High School, Portland, Maine, USA
University of Vermont (BA|1969)
Sir George Williams University (MA|1973) - Attività lavorative
- short-story writer
journalist
novelist - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2007)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- John Dos Passos Prize (1997)
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award (2017)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)
O. Henry Prize (1998 and 1999)
National Book Award (1993) - Agente
- Liz Darhansoff (Darhansoff ∙ Verrill and Feldman)
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read: Barkskins by Annie Proulx in 75 Books Challenge for 2018 (Marzo 2018)
Annie Proulx in Other People's Libraries (Luglio 2016)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 47
- Opere correlate
- 26
- Utenti
- 32,021
- Popolarità
- #610
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 730
- ISBN
- 498
- Lingue
- 19
- Preferito da
- 137
- A proposito di
- 1
- Citazioni
- 1,090