![]() In 1999, Concordia awarded her an honorary doctorate. from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Quebec in 1973 and pursued, but did not complete, a Ph.D. She later returned to college, studying at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. She 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. ![]() Her maternal forebears came to America in 1635, 15 years after the Mayflower arrived. She is of English and French-Canadian ancestry. Her first name honored one of her mother's aunts. Proulx was born Edna Ann Proulx in Norwich, Connecticut, to Lois Nellie ( née Gill) and Georges-Napoléon Proulx. Her short story " Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. ![]() ![]() Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. National Book FestivalĮdna Ann Proulx ( / ˈ p r uː/ born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. ![]()
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