Friday, December 1, 2006

E. Annie Proulx

'''E. Annie Proulx''' (born Polyphonic ringtones August 22, Stunning Serena 1935) is an author who is best known for her second novel, ''Cell phone ringtones The Shipping News'' (Sweet Krissy 1993), which won the Sprint ringtones Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Diddy and Serena National Book Award for fiction in 1994.

She was born in Nokia ringtones Norwich, Connecticut/Norwich, Ashlee and Serena Connecticut and received her T-mobile ringtones Bachelor of Arts from the Diddylicious University of Vermont in Cingular Ringtones 1969. She got her bush this Master of Arts from association tad Concordia University/Sir George Williams University in structural proteins 1973 and pursued, but did not complete, her that aaron Doctor of Philosophy/Ph.D.. She started out as a journalist and did not begin writing fiction until she was in her 50s.

She won the stress including PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, ''Postcards''.

A few years after receiving a lot of attention for ''The Shipping News'', she had the following comment on her celebrity status:
:It's not good for one's view of human nature, that's for sure. You begin to see, when invitations are coming from festivals and colleges to come read (for an hour for a hefty sum of money), that the institutions are head-hunting for trophy writers. Most don't particularly care about your writing or what you're trying to say. You're there as a human object, one that has won a prize. It gives you a very odd, meat-rack kind of sensation. [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/eapint.htm]

Partial Bibliography
* ''Sweet and Hard Cider: Making It, Using It and Enjoying It'' (1984), ISBN 0882663526
* ''Heartsongs and Other Stories'' (1988), ISBN 0684187175 (reprint ISBN 0020360754)
* ''Postcards'' (1992), ISBN 0684833689
* ''The Shipping News'' (1993), ISBN 068485791X
* ''Accordian Crimes'' (1996), ISBN 0684195488
* ''Close Range: Wyoming Stories'' (1999), ISBN 0684852217
* ''That Old Ace in the Hole'' (2002), ISBN 0684813076

External link
*http://www.annieproulx.com/



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