The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

Before Brokeback Mountain:

In 1993, Proulx wrote The Shipping News. A dark but comic tale set in Newfoundland, it is the story of an unlucky newspaper reporter named Quoyle. It is packed with details, all drawn in a vibrant (full of life) lively style.

The book [The Shipping News] resulted in a steady stream of awards:

• first, the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune,
  
• followed by the Irish Times International Award,
  
• and the National Book Award.
  
• These honors were all topped by the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
  

Bio

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We haven't played book until now?

[Fran]

Before BBM:

Annie Proulx attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, in the 1950s.

[memento]

In 1997, Proulx was awarded the Dos Passos Prize. John Dos Passos Prize is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States, awarded annually to writers in the middle of their career.

The Prize was founded at Longwood University in 1980 and is meant to honor John Dos Passos by recognizing other writers in his name. The prize is administered by a committee from the Department of English and Modern Languages; the chair of the committee also serves as the chair of the prize jury. Other members on the committee include the immediate past recipient and a distinguished critic, editor, or scholar.

Recipients of the prize receive $2,000 and a bronze medal engraved with their name.

[Toast]

In 1994 [Before Brokeback Mountain] Annie Proulx had short stories published in Atlantic Monthly and Esquire, and she bought a second home - in Newfoundland. (Which she sold in 2006)

[southendmd]

Before BBM, Annie Proulx wrote Accordion Crimes :  The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996.

[Fran]

Before BBM:

In the early 1980s Annie Proulx produced a series of "how-to" books, including The Fine Art of Salad Gardening.

[memento]

Around the same time as BBM:

Annie wrote Close Range: Wyoming Stories, a collection of short stories published in 1999. The lead story in this collection, entitled "The Half-Skinned Steer," which was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in November 1997, was selected by author Garrison Keillor for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1998, (Proulx herself edited the 1997 edition of this series) and later by novelist John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999).

[Toast]

In 1993, before writing Brokeback Mountain, her book The Shipping News resulted in a steady stream of awards: first, the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune, followed by the Irish Times International Award, and the National Book Award. These honors for The Shipping News were all topped by the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

[southendmd]

Before BBM,

Proulx lived for more than thirty years in Vermont, has married and divorced three times, and has three sons and a daughter (named Jon, Gillis, Morgan, and Sylvia).

[Fran]

Before BBM:

Edna Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, the first of George Napoleon Proulx and Lois Nelly Gill Proulx's five children.