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Annie Proulx (1993), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. She won the PEN.

She was born in Norwich, Connecticut and received her Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in 1957. She got her Master of Arts from Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Quebec in 1973 and pursued, but did not complete, her Ph.D.. She started out as a journalist and did not begin writing fiction until she was in her 50s. She currently lives in her adopted home of Arvada, Wyoming.

A few years after receiving a lot of attention for , 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." [1]

Proulx has twice won the O. Henry Prize for the year's best short story. In 1998, she won for on October 13, 1997. (The story has since become an award-winning 2005 movie, directed by Ang Lee.) Proulx won again the following year for was adapted to film by director Lasse Hallstrom in 2001, starring Kevin Spacey as protagonist, Quoyle., directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, based on a story of the same name in Proulx's collection of shorts,