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The Annie Proulx Papers
The Annie Proulx Papers
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- Description
- Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River. Organized into 23 series: Series 1: Writings by Annie Proulx ; Series 2: Artwork by Annie Proulx ; Series 3: Correspondence ; Series 4: Research ; Series 5: Other Projects Series 6: Works by Others ; Series 7: Photographs ; Series 8: Genealogical Papers ; Series 9: Personal Records ; Series 10: Address Books and Monthly Planners ; Series 11: Ephemera ; Series 12: Material related to the estate of Lois Gill Proulx ; Series 13: Publisher’s Artwork and Promotional Material ; Series 14: Material Related to Scheduled Literary Events ; Series 15: Awards ; Series 16: Property Records ; Series 17: Publishing and Other Contracts ; Series 18: Miscellaneous Printed ; Series 19: Electronic Records ; Series 20: Audio Cassettes, VHS, DVDs, CDs ; Series 21: Restricted Material ; Series 22: Realia ; Series 23: Financial Papers.
- Names
- Proulx, Annie (Creator)
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940- (Author)
- Collins, Billy (Author)
- Connaroe, Joel (Author)
- Duberstein, Helen (Author)
- Dynak, Sharon (Author)
- Flory, Sheldon (Author)
- Gardner, A. Dudley (Author)
- Goldman, Francisco (Author)
- Gorman, Skip (Author)
- Klipper, Stuart, 1941- (Author)
- Lang, Jim (Author)
- McMurtry, Larry (Author)
- Muldoon, Paul (Author)
- Murphy, Rex (Author)
- Nichols, Lewis (Author)
- Proulx, Annie (Artist)
- Proulx, Lois Gill (Artist)
- Proulx, Louis Gill (Author)
- Proulx, Rex. (Author)
- Proulx, Roger (Author)
- Proulx, Ron. (Author)
- Ricketts, Cathy (Author)
- Ricketts, Doug (Author)
- Ricketts, Lindsey (Author)
- Roberts, Roberta Marcia, 1936- (Author)
- Roberts, Sarah Rehm (Author)
- Robinson, Earl (Author)
- Seybold, David (Author)
- Streitfield, David (Author)
- Strong, Horace (Author)
- Swift, Clint (Author)
- Warner, Alan (Author)
- Warner, William, 1954- (Author)
- Watkin, Tom. (Author)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1964 - 2007 (Inferred)
- Library locations
- Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Shelf locator: Berg Coll Proulx MSS 1935-2010
- Topics
- Accordion -- History -- Fiction
- Accordionists -- United States -- Fiction
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century -- Non-fiction
- Chinese Americans -- History
- Cowboys -- Wyoming -- Fiction
- Denver (Colo.) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction, American
- Farm life -- United States -- Fiction
- American fiction -- Women authors
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
- Gay men -- United States -- Fiction
- Homosexuality and motion pictures
- Indians of North America -- History
- Japanese Americans -- History
- Journalists -- United States -- Fiction
- Motion picture authorship
- Natural history -- Wyoming
- Natural history -- Wyoming -- Red Desert (Desert)
- Ranch life -- Fiction
- Rural conditions -- United States -- Fiction
- Short stories, American -- 20th century
- Short stories, American -- 21st century
- Short stories, American -- West (U.S.)
- Short stories, American -- Women authors
- Short stories, American -- Wyoming
- Shoshoni Indians -- History
- Western stories -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction
- Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.) -- Fiction
- Red Desert (Wyo. : Desert) -- History
- Texas Panhandle (Tex.) -- Fiction
- West (U.S.) -- 20th century -- Fiction
- West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations
- Western United States -- Fiction
- Wyoming -- Biography
- Wyoming -- Description and travel
- Wyoming -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Genres
- Clippings
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Manuscripts
- Notebooks
- Photographs
- Ephemera
- Scrapbooks
- Paintings
- Fiction
- Drawings
- Music
- Interviews
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River.
- Content: Organized into 23 series: Series 1: Writings by Annie Proulx ; Series 2: Artwork by Annie Proulx ; Series 3: Correspondence ; Series 4: Research ; Series 5: Other Projects Series 6: Works by Others ; Series 7: Photographs ; Series 8: Genealogical Papers ; Series 9: Personal Records ; Series 10: Address Books and Monthly Planners ; Series 11: Ephemera ; Series 12: Material related to the estate of Lois Gill Proulx ; Series 13: Publisher’s Artwork and Promotional Material ; Series 14: Material Related to Scheduled Literary Events ; Series 15: Awards ; Series 16: Property Records ; Series 17: Publishing and Other Contracts ; Series 18: Miscellaneous Printed ; Series 19: Electronic Records ; Series 20: Audio Cassettes, VHS, DVDs, CDs ; Series 21: Restricted Material ; Series 22: Realia ; Series 23: Financial Papers. The archive comprises material related to the publication of four short-story collections written and/ or composed by Proulx during this period, as well as uncollected short stories; material related to the composition and publication of four novels published between 1992 and 2002; material related to the composition of nonfiction articles, essays, and books, including freelance magazine work done by Proulx in the 1980’s and several “how-to” gardening and cooking publications; four academic theses completed by Proulx while she was a history student at the University of Vermont and George Williams University; a holograph journal begun by Proulx on 1976, and concluded on March 18, 1977, while she was living in the North Kingdom of Vermont (restricted until after the death of the author); book reviews, public remarks, interviews, book proposals, and a small section of poetry written by Annie Proulx. The archive also includes some born-digital drafts of works and correspondence, and her sketchbooks and watercolors of landscapes and people. Also contains Proulx’s extensive research files, which include maps and guides organized by region, project files with articles organized by subject, and hundreds of research photographs, many organized by place. Other photographs in the archive include portraits of Annie Proulx, photographs of literary events, and photographs from Proulx’s childhood and of family and friends. Also includes a large collection of artwork by Proulx’s mother, painter and amateur naturalist Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, and her estate papers, as well as a collection of genealogical and property records retained by Proulx. The archive is rich in both incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters to and from writers and friends; agents and publishers; translators, and readers. In many cases, Proulx retained copies of her outgoing personal and business letters. Correspondence from fans of “Brokeback Mountain” is restricted for the life of the author, as is Proulx’s Vermont journal.
- Content: The archive includes one computer printout of a draft of the novel Barkskins, from 2014. This is the sole item in the archive that does not fall within the inclusive and bulk date ranges
- Acquisition: Purchase, Annie Proulx via John Wronoski, March 4, 2009
- Physical Description
- Extent: 178 linear feet (356 manuscript boxes), 3715 megabytes (2478 computer files)
- Watercolors
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Still image
- Sound recording
- Moving image
- Identifiers
- Other local Identifier: Berg Coll Proulx MSS 1935-2010
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20302122
- MSS Unit ID: 22245
- Archives collections id: archives_collections_22245
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 752ed170-b554-013b-ca3c-0242ac110003