Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, “The Shipping News” (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994.
Proulx has twice won the O. Henry Prize for the year’s best short story. In 1998, she won for “Brokeback Mountain,” which first appeared in “The New Yorker.” “Brokeback Mountain” was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. Proulx won the O. Henry Prize for the year’s best short story again the following year for “The Mud Below,” which also appeared in “The New Yorker.” Proulx also won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, “Postcards” and in 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize. Her story “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by author Garrison Keillor for inclusion in “The Best American Short Stories 1998,” and later by novelist John Updike for inclusion in “The Best American Short Stories of the Century” (1999).
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