Annie Proulx Explained

Annie Proulx
Birth Name:Edna Ann Proulx
Birth Date:22 August 1935
Birth Place:Norwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Pseudonym:E. Annie Proulx, E.A. Proulx
Occupation:Novelist
Children:4
Education:Colby College
University of Vermont (BA)
Sir George Williams University (MA)
Awards:Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1994 The Shipping News

Edna Ann Proulx (; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.[1]

She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize.[2] Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.

Personal life and education

Proulx was born Edna Ann Proulx in Norwich, Connecticut, to Lois Nellie (Gill) and Georges-Napoléon Proulx.[3] Her first name honored one of her mother's aunts. She is of English and French-Canadian ancestry.[4] [5] Her maternal forebears came to America in 1635, 15 years after the Mayflower arrived.[6]

Proulx lived in multiple states along the East Coast during her childhood as her father worked his way up through the textile industry.[7] [8] [9] She wrote her first story at the age of 10, while sick with chicken pox. She graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine.[10] She briefly attended Colby College, where she met her first husband, H. Ridgely Bullock, Jr., and dropped out to marry him in 1955. She later returned to college, studying at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in History in 1969. She earned her M.A. in history from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Quebec in 1973.[11] Proulx pursued a PhD at Concordia and passed her oral examinations in 1975, but abandoned her dissertation before completing the degree. In 1999, Concordia awarded her an honorary doctorate.[12]

Proulx lived for more than 30 years in Vermont, has married and divorced three times, and has three sons and a daughter (Jonathan, Gillis, Morgan, and Sylvia). In 1994, she moved to Bird Cloud, a ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming, spending part of the year in northern Newfoundland on a small cove adjacent to L'Anse aux Meadows. As of 2019, Proulx lived in Port Townsend, Washington.[13]

Writing career and recognition

Starting as a journalist, her first published work of fiction was "The Customs Lounge", a science fiction story published in the September 1963 issue of If, under the byline "E.A. Proulx".[14]

A year later, her science fiction story "All the Pretty Little Horses" appeared in the teen magazine Seventeen in June 1964. She subsequently published stories in Esquire magazine and Gray's Sporting Journal in the late 1970s, as well as how-to manuals for cooking and gardening.[15] [16] Proulx published her first short-story collection, Heart Songs, in 1988 and her first novel, Postcards, in 1992. She was the first woman to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award, which was awarded to Postcards.[17] She was awarded a NEA fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1992.[18]

She had the following comment on her celebrity status:

In 1997, Proulx was awarded the Dos Passos Prize, a mid-career award for American writers.[19] Proulx has twice won the O. Henry Prize for the year's best short story. In 1998, she won for "Brokeback Mountain", which had appeared in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997. Proulx won again the following year for "The Mud Below", which appeared in The New Yorker June 22 and 29, 1999. Both appear in her 1999 collection of short stories, . The lead story in this collection, entitled "The Half-Skinned Steer", was selected by author Garrison Keillor for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1998, (Proulx herself edited the 1997 edition of this series) and later by novelist John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999).

In 2007, the composer Charles Wuorinen approached Proulx with the idea of turning her short story "Brokeback Mountain" into an opera. The opera of the same name with a libretto by Proulx herself premiered January 28, 2014, at the Teatro Real in Madrid. It was praised as an often brilliant adaptation that clearly conveyed the text of the libretto with music that is rich in imagination and variety.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Proulx published her first non-fiction book, Bird Cloud: A Memoir, largely based on her former Wyoming ranch of the same name.[25] In 2017, she received the Fitzgerald Award for that year for Achievement in American Literature.[26]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Essay

Novels

Short fiction

Collections

Stories

width=25%TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Rough deeds2013Proulx, Annie . June 10–17, 2013 . Rough deeds . The New Yorker . 89 . 17 . 56–61 .
A resolute man2016Proulx, Annie . March 21, 2016 . A resolute man . The New Yorker . 92 . 6 . 76–85 .

Awards and recognition

Adaptations

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Library of Congress Name Authorities: Proulx, Annie. February 4, 2013.
  2. Hartman . Steve . Fall 1999 . Annie Proulx's Close Range . New York State Writer's Institute . 4 . 1.
  3. https://www.nndb.com/people/356/000085101/ NNDB
  4. Hennessy, D. M. (2007). Annie Proulx. In R. E. Lee & P. Meanor (Eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 335. American Short-Story Writers Since World War II. Detroit: Gale.
  5. Annie Proulx. (2013). In J. W. Hunter (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 331). Detroit: Gale.
  6. Jukka Petäjä, Maisema on ihmisen kehys ja varjo, Helsingin Sanomat, October 26, 2011, pg. C4.
  7. Web site: Rimer . Sara . June 23, 1994 . At Home With: E. Annie Proulx; At Midlife, a Novelist Is Born . 2024-01-10 . The New York Times.
  8. Web site: McCarthy . Megan . April 1, 2013 . The Friction Between Past and Present: The American Dream Landscape and Identity in the Novels of Annie Proulx . January 10, 2024 . Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
  9. News: Cox . Christopher . 2009 . Annie Proulx, The Art of Fiction No. 199 . 2024-01-10 . The Paris Review . en . Spring 2009 . 188 . 0031-2037.
  10. Web site: 2017-09-21 . Annie Proulx to receive honorary National Book Award . 2024-01-10 . The Portland Press Herald.
  11. Web site: Annie Proulx. www.concordia.ca. 2016-01-25. January 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160130220616/http://www.concordia.ca/alumni-friends/applause/great-concordians/annie-proulx.html. dead.
  12. Web site: Honorary Degree Citation - Annie Proulx Concordia University Archives. archives.concordia.ca. 2016-03-09.
  13. Web site: Paz . Diane Urbani de la . From witches to marijuana, Jefferson County authors cover the gamut . Peninsula Daily News . 30 April 2019.
  14. Web site: The Customs Lounge in If, Volume 13 No 4, September 1963 – E. Annie Proulx. 2007-03-18.
  15. Web site: Simonds . Merilyn . August 4, 2016 . Annie Proulx's Canadian connections . January 10, 2024 . The Kingston Whig Standard.
  16. News: Rock . Lucy . 2016-06-05 . Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’ . 2024-01-10 . The Observer . en-GB . 0029-7712.
  17. Book: Glossbrenner, Alfred . About the author : the passionate reader's guide to the authors you love, including things you never knew, juicy bits you'll want to know, and hundreds of ideas for what to read next . Glossbrenner . Emily . Harcourt . 2000 . 9780156013024 . San Diego . 182–183.
  18. Web site: Annie Proulx . 2024-01-10 . Dev John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . en.
  19. Web site: Longwood University . Past Recipients and Select Works . 2024-01-10 . www.longwood.edu . en.
  20. Web site: Wise. Brian. 'Brokeback Mountain' Opera: The Critics Weigh In. wqxr.org. January 30, 2014 . March 25, 2018.
  21. William Jeffery, "Brokeback Mountain Opera Receives World Premiere", Limelight Magazine (January 30, 2014).
  22. Westphal, Matthew (September 27, 2007). "'Gay 12-Tone Cowboys' - Composer Charles Wuorinen Plans Opera Version of Brokeback Mountain". Playbill. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  23. Web site: Opera: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Teatro Real;. Teatro-Real.com . 2013-10-02 . 2013-10-02.
  24. News: Operatic Cowboys in Love, Onstage . New York Times . January 29, 2014 . January 30, 2014 . Anthony Tommasini.
  25. Web site: Wyndham . Susan . 2011-03-04 . This is the house that Annie built . 2024-01-10 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  26. http://fscottfestival.org/ F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
  27. News: Depenbrock . Julie . October 11, 2022 . In 'Fen, Bog & Swamp,' Annie Proulx pens a history of wetland destruction . . October 12, 2022 . interview.
  28. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/404238?lookfor=Heart%20Songs&offset=1&max=1327 "Heart songs / E. Annie Proulx"
  29. https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1993 "National Book Awards – 1993"
  30. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction "Fiction"
  31. Web site: 2010-02-04 . Orange Prizes . 2024-01-10 . Women & Children First . en.
  32. Web site: September 25, 2017 . Annie Proulx Wins National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award . 2024-01-10 . Association of Writers & Writing Programs . en.
  33. Web site: The Annie Proulx Papers : 1935-2010 (bulk 1980-2007) . 2024-01-10 . The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts.
  34. Cheveresan . Christina . 2007 . Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain Or "This Ain't No Little Thing" . British and American Studies Journal . 13 . 41–50.
  35. Web site: The WILLA Literary Award – Women Writing the West . 2024-01-10 . en.
  36. Web site: Prizes . 2024-01-10 . The Paris Review . en.
  37. http://www.unitedstatesartists.org United States Artists Official Website
  38. News: Flood . Alison . 2017-09-22 . Annie Proulx wins high honour for writing on 'the beauty of rural America' . 2024-01-10 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  39. News: Annie Proulx wins Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. May 3, 2018. The Washington Post. May 3, 2018.

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