Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx, the name she writes under, is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her first novel, Postcards, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and her second, The Shipping News, took both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Her short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted into the 2005 film of the same name. Her other books include Barkskins, which follows one family across generations from 18th-century New France, and the collection Close Range.