Annie Proulx Books In Order
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Close Range | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Dirt | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fine Just the Way It Is | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Postcards | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shipping News | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Accordion Crimes | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brokeback Mountain | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Old Ace in the Hole | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barkskins | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Heart Songs and Other Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Great Grapes | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Making the Best Apple Cider | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gourmet Gardener | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Roaring in the Blood | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bird Cloud | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cider | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Desert | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1947 | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1956 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1979 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1982 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1983 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1993 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author born in 1935.
+Biography
Annie was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and named after one of her mother’s aunts. Annie has quite the dated ancestry, with her forebears having come a little over a decade after the Mayflower.
That was back in the early 1630s. Annie met her first Husband H. Ridgely Bullock during her short stint at Colby College in the 1950s. This was after making it through Deering High School in Portland.
While Colby College didn’t exactly work out, Annie was granted another opportunity to pursue her studies in 1966 when she attended the University of Vermont, graduating with a degree in history.
Dissatisfied with the achievement, Annie saw fit to acquire a Masters Degree from Sir George Williams University in Quebec in the early 1970s, though she was not nearly as successful at completing her Ph.D. after that.
Her marriage to Bullock didn’t last either. In fact, Annie Proulx was married and divorced three times in three decades, with the marriages yielding a daughter and three sons. Having spent most of her life in Vermont, Annie eventually moved to Saratoga, Wyoming in 1994 before finally settling in Seattle, Washington.
+Literary Career
Before trying her hand at novel writing, Annie Proulx worked in journalism. It wasn’t until 1963 that The Customers Lounge’, her first fictional work was published in If’.
She went on to write a few more significant stories, this including ‘All the Pretty Little Horses’, a science fiction tale that was published in 1964 in the magazine ‘Seventeen’. After featuring in magazines like Esquire, Annie’s first novel finally hit the shelves in 1992, garnering Annie recognition and a few award nominations.
A winner of the Dos Passos Prize and the O. Henry Prize, Annie has excelled both as a novelist and a writer of short stories.
Annie Proulx has never fully embraced her celebrity status. She has suggested that receiving so many accolades can impede one’s human nature, especially when writers like her receive so many invitations to festivals and events where they are paid colossal amounts of money just to do a few readings or even sign some autographs. She has also suggested that authors who garner so much acclaim tend to lose their significance in society, with people coming to view them as objects that have won prizes rather than human beings worth far more than their accolades.
+Annie Proulx Adaptations
Annie Proulx’s second novel The Shipping News’, which was published in 1993, received a big screen adaptation in 2001. The movie, also called The Shipping News’, starred Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, and Julianne Moore. While the movie received mixed reviews from critics, it won a number of awards.
Annie also had the privilege of seeing her short story Brokeback Mountain’ become a major award winning movie in 2005. Two years after that, Annie was involved in the process that saw this same short story become an opera, which premiered in 2014 in Madrid to mixed reviews.
+Bad Dirt
Bad Dirt is a collection of short stories from Annie Proulx. The short stories explore the lives of desperate people who have been pushed to the edge by circumstances they couldn’t possibly control.
In each case, Annie’s characters must determine to push through seemingly impossible obstacles, manifesting a resourceful nature they didn’t know they had. The worlds Annie creates are typically dangerous and isolated and bind her characters with customs and norms that make life difficult.
Prominent in a number of these stories is the small hamlet of Elk Tooth. Here, all activity centers on the hamlet’s three bars. Those with little interest in drinking partake in beard-growing festivals even while catching poachers using unexpected methodologies.
The book features a number of surprisingly distinct landscapes, many of them crafted from Annie’s understanding of Wyoming and the knowledge she has garnered about the history of the West.
From the book, it is clear that Annie appreciates the ability of the human will to survive in even the most impossible situations.
It is hard to deny the talent that Annie Proulx brings to bear when you read Bad Dirt. Most writers endeavor to craft new concepts and plot twists in order to blow the minds of their readers.
Annie only cares about telling a good story and she does just that. Every sentence she writes here has been clearly fine tuned to manifest a specific picture and message. Every character is something special, standing apart and proving equally engaging.
And even if the cast wasn’t nearly as interesting, readers would still enjoy the settings that Annie creates and the landscapes she paints. The short stories give Annie a lot of leeway to play with all sorts of concepts about the magical and fantastical, and even the ordinary.
+The Shipping News
After the events surrounding his two-timing wife, Quoyle sees fit to retreat to the Newfound coast, taking his daughters along with him to the starkly beautiful home of his ancestors.
There, Quoyle struggles with the locals who only make his relationship with his family members in the vicinity that much more complex. Quoyle tries to confront his own demons in the face of the unpredictable forces of nature and even those opposing societal forces.
The one thing that stands out about this book is Annie Proulx’ writing style; even those readers with little interest in the story cannot help but be hypnotized by her writing style. This is the sort of book one can read to fight stress because it is so relaxing, at least in the beginning.
If there is one point of contention, it is the characters most of which are not very likable. To an extent, that works in favor of the book because it makes some of the obstacles that Annie throws at her cast that much more interesting.
At some point, it becomes difficult to put this book down, especially when Annie begins to dissect her characters, reaching down to the depths of their demons and giving them opportunities to strive for something better.
Annie is very honest in her portray of her characters, not afraid to paint them in the least attractive light possible, and that only accentuates her story as a whole. This book justifies Annie Proulx celebrity status in the publishing industry.
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