WRITER

Annie Proulx

1935 - Today

Annie Proulx

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. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Proulx has received more than 973,203 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.

Memorability Metrics

970k
Page Views (PV)
54.63
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
39
Languages Editions (L)
3.79
Effective Languages (L*)
4.29
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

That Old Ace in the Hole

Fiction, Farms, Young men

2002

Close range

Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, Wyoming in fiction

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.

1999

Shipping News

Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

1993

Bad Dirt

Social life and customs, Fiction, Short stories

2004

Brokeback Mountain

Male friendship, Gay men, Brokeback Mountain (Motion picture)

1998

Postcards

Farm life, Fiction, Rural conditions

1992

Page views of Annie Proulxes by language

Over the past year Annie Proulx has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 109,655 views, followed by German (9,831), and Spanish (6,646). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (473.47%), Irish (88.85%), and Bosnian (80.48%)