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Annie Proulx

1935 - Today

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Edna Ann Proulx ( PROO; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Proulx has received more than 1,056,797 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Annie Proulx is the 2,464th most popular writer (down from 2,021st in 2019), the 3,108th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,657th in 2019) and the 268th most popular American Writer.

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  • 54.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Annie Proulx ranks 2,464 out of 7,302. Before her are Guan Hanqing, Gottschalk of Orbais, Winston Groom, William Beckford, Alois Musil, and María Kodama. After her are Rolf Hochhuth, Ariwara no Narihira, Dick Francis, Christopher Priest, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, and Valentin Kataev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Annie Proulx ranks 151. Before her are Yakov Sinai, Ludmila Belousova, Jack Welch, Robert Conrad, Vasily Livanov, and Pierre Kartner. After her are Leonardo Del Vecchio, Armando Manzanero, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Diane Ladd, Donald Arnold, and Sergio Rossi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Proulx ranks 3,108 out of 20,380. Before her are George Koval (1913), Daniel Inouye (1924), Daniel Boone (1734), Esther Lederberg (1922), Frances Sternhagen (1930), and Larry Semon (1889). After her are Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), John Waters (1946), Jedediah Smith (1799), Sun Ra (1914), and Carmen Electra (1972).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Annie Proulx ranks 268. Before her are Charles Berlitz (1913), Kate Millett (1934), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), and Winston Groom (1943). After her are Richard Wright (1908), Michael Bishop (1945), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Ron Kovic (1946), Donald E. Westlake (1933), and Margaret Fuller (1810).

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