10 Facts About Annie Proulx

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Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Annie Proulx graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, then attended Colby College "for a short period in the 1950s", where she met her first husband, H Ridgely Bullock, Jr.

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Annie Proulx lived for more than 30 years in Vermont, has married and divorced three times, and has three sons and a daughter.

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Annie Proulx subsequently published stories in Esquire magazine and Gray's Sporting Journal in the late 1970s, eventually publishing her first collection in 1988 and her first novel in 1992.

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Annie Proulx was awarded a NEA fellowship in 1992 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1993.

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Annie Proulx had the following comment on her celebrity status:.

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In 1997, Annie Proulx was awarded the Dos Passos Prize, a mid-career award for American writers.

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Annie Proulx has twice won the O Henry Prize for the year's best short story.

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Annie Proulx won again the following year for "The Mud Below", which appeared in The New Yorker June 22 and 29,1999.

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The opera of the same name with a libretto by Annie Proulx herself premiered January 28,2014, at the Teatro Real in Madrid.