![]() ![]() Since then, she has published two collections of short fiction, three novels, and a memoir about her Wyoming ranch, Bird Cloud. She moved to Saratoga, Wyoming in 1994, which became the setting for her next three collections of short fiction. Her first book to garner widespread recognition was The Shipping News (1993), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Award. In 1988, she published her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, and in 1992 her first novel, Postcards, at the age of 56. While working as a freelance journalist, she published several instructional books as well as a short-lived newspaper and more short stories. She completed a Master’s degree at Sir George Williams (Concordia) University and began a Ph.D., but abandoned it in 1975, the same year her third marriage ended, and moved back to Vermont with her three sons. Proulx published her first short story, “The Customs Lounge,” in 1963 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969. Born in 1935 to the vice president of a textile company and a painter, Annie Proulx grew up in Connecticut with four younger sisters and briefly attended Maine’s Colby College before leaving school to work odd jobs. ![]()
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