Annie Proulx has held NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships and residences at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Her first short story collection,
Heart Songs and Other Stories, appeared in 1988, followed in 1992 by
Postcards, which won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The 1993 novel
The Shipping News won the
Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award, the
Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Accordion Crimes, Proulx's most recent novel, was published in June 1996.
She began working on the stories collected in Close Range in 1997. "The Half-Skinned Steer" was selected by Garrison Keillor for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1998 and by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century. "Brokeback Mountain" won a 1998 O. Henry Short Story Award and a National Magazine Award through its publication in The New Yorker.
Annie Proulx lives in Wyoming, but spends much of the year traveling North America.
