Author of many fine
novels and
short stories and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for
The Shipping News. Tends towards very
bleak, rugged stories, although occasionally breaks out with a couple lines that make you think nothing could be done to improve the
universe. The best writer of
sentences I've ever read. Also co-authored an article on making
cider and a
cookbook. Her first published book,
Heart Songs, was published when she was
56. Published as E. Annie Proulx until her most recent book,
Close Range.
Novels:
Postcards, 1992 - About a man wandering around the country in the early part of the century, and how his absence affects his family in Vermont.
The Shipping News, 1993 - A social outcast loses everything and restarts his life in his ancestral home of Newfoundland.
Accordion Crimes, 1996 - A collection of stories about different ethnic groups' experiences in America, tied together by a green accordion. (Similar to the movie The Red Violin)
Compilations of short stories:
Heart Songs, 1989 - Mostly set in rural New England.
Close Range, 1999 - Stories based in Wyoming, often related to farming.