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Biography of E. Annie Proulx
Name: E. Annie Proulx
Birth Date: August 22, 1935
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Norwich, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer
E. Annie Proulx
E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News.While she was certainly not an overnight sensation, having written stories from the age of ten and published short fiction since her early 20s, E. Annie Proulx did present her own remarkable success story, one characterized by hard work and a fierce independence. The measure of her success was impressive; with her first attempt at long-form fiction, Proulx won the respected PEN/Faulkner Award and the accolades of critics and fellow authors. David Bradley, writing for the New York Times, dubbed Postcards an example of "The Great American Novel." This acclaim snowballed with the publication of The Shipping News, which garnered three major prizes for Proulx and brought comparisons to legendary authors William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser, and Herman Melville. There was an overwhelmingly positive response …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…At the time of Proulx's birth:Franklin Roosevelt was president of the United StatesC. F. Richter develops the Richter scale for measuring earthquakesSinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen HereLord Tweedsmuir became Governor General of CanadaThe times:1930-1960: Modernist Period of American literature1939-1945: World War II1957-1975: Vietnam War1960-present: Postmodernist Period of American literature1991: Persian Gulf War1992-1996: Civil war in BosniaProulx's contemporaries:Elvis Presley (1935-1977) American rock singerJim Dine (1935-) American artistAbbie Hoffman (1936-1989 ) American social activistCarol Burnett (1936-) American actress/comedianTom Stoppard (1937-) American playwrightSelected world events:1936: BBC established first electronic television system1939: World War II started1940: Walt Disney's Fantasia was released1945: Germany surrendered to Allied forces1946: Cold War began1949: George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four1965: Black activist Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City1973: U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion1973: Pablo Picasso died1991: Soviet Union was officially dissolved Further Reading Contemporary Authors, Volume 145, Gale, 1995.Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 81: Yearbook 1993, Gale, 1994.New York Times, April 21, 1993; June 23, 1994.
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