Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx's The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Irish
Times International Fiction Prize. She is the author of two
other novels: Postcards, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award,
and Accordion Crimes. She has also written two collections
of short stories, Heart Songs and Other Stories and Close
Range. In 2001, The Shipping News was made into a major
motion picture. Annie Proulx lives in Wyoming and
Newfoundland.