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

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Proulx is the 2,374th most popular writer (up from 2,464th in 2019), the 3,428th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,108th in 2019) and the 274th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Annie Proulx ranks 2,374 out of 7,302. Before her are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Ana Blandiana, Henri Meilhac, Sister Nivedita, Asadi Tusi, and Silva Kaputikyan. After her are Alexandre Exquemelin, Michel de Ghelderode, Xenophon of Ephesus, Heinrich Glarean, Petrus Comestor, and Paul Féval, père.

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Among people born in 1935, Annie Proulx ranks 154. Before her are Jan Saudek, Wang Hongwen, Richard Brautigan, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Antonios Naguib, and Vladimir Aksyonov. After her are Jerry Orbach, Alfonso López Trujillo, Robert Conrad, Serge Klarsfeld, Richard Kuklinski, and Lando Buzzanca.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Proulx ranks 3,428 out of 20,380. Before her are Babushka Lady (1930), James Bond (1900), Charlie Wilson (1933), James Taylor (1948), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), and Richard Basehart (1914). After her are Kristen Stewart (1990), Henry Silva (1928), Allen Newell (1927), John Ritter (1948), Drew Barrymore (1975), and Don Cheadle (1964).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Annie Proulx ranks 274. Before her are August Derleth (1909), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Ben Shapiro (1984), and Jacques Futrelle (1875). After her are Djuna Barnes (1892), Dorothy Parker (1893), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), and James M. Cain (1892).

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