Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent novel is Barkskins. She lives in Seattle.
"'Brokeback Mountain' does some of the best things a story can do.
It abolishes the old West clichés, excavates and honors a certain
kind of elusive life, then nearly levels you with the emotional
weight at its center."
-- Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe
"A stand-out story...'Brokeback Mountain' is the sad chronology of
a love affair between two men who can't afford to call it that.
They know what they're not -- not queer, not gay -- but have no
idea what they are."
-- Walter Kirn, New York
"Proulx's understanding is at its most remarkable in the
astonishing 'Brokeback Mountain.' [She] knows what she could only
know...by the infrared that allows a very few writers clear sight
in the dark of the imagination."
-- Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review
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