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- Annie Proulx loves trees. For the past 10 years she has studied them, written about them and travelled the world looking at them. Recently she moved to a house set in a forest of lofty red cedars. It was here she discovered that not all trees love her.
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Jun 5, 2016 · Annie Proulx loves trees. For the past 10 years she has studied them, written about them and travelled the world looking at them. Recently she moved to a house set in a forest of lofty red...
- Lucy Rock
Feb 16, 2024 · Most touchingly, she weaves interior associations and details her experiences with wetlands over the course of her life; in one especially moving story, she recounts venturing out into a swamp alone as a young girl. Having absorbed Proulx as a writer, I was deeply fascinated with Proulx as a person.
- Elizabeth Phelan
- It doesn’t matter where you start. Proulx didn’t launch her writing career with fiction. Like a lot of other writers, she started small and worked her way up.
- Let the place drive the story. Proulx is the first to say that place informs her writing more than character, more than plot, more than anything. That’s apparent in her 2008 collection of Wyoming short stories, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3.
- Interviews are optional. When asked at the Literary Arts lecture whether she does background interviews for her books, Proulx said simply: “No.” With one exception.
- Learn to love research. Proulx is researching her next book, which has to do with trees and forests, a project that so far has taken her to Canada, Indonesia and New Zealand.
- Matt Reimann
- She Regrets Writing Her Most Famous Work. However superior her other work may be, it is unlikely any of Proulx’s stories will outshine in the popular imagination her most famous: “Brokeback Mountain.”
- She Recently Left The Country. For 20 years, the Connecticut-born Proulx lived alone in Wyoming, where there was an abundance of nature and a sparing population density.
- She Has Held More Than a Lifetime’s Worth of Jobs. Though Proulx wrote her first story at age 10 and began selling them to magazines in her 20s, her original plan was to be a professor of history.
- Her Success Came Late. Writing fiction under the stresses of family and finances is extremely difficult. Annie Proulx came out with her first work of fiction, a collection of short stories titled Heart Songs, at the age of 53.
Oct 11, 2022 · Cypress trees, some dead and some living, stand in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Fargo, Ga. Proulx writes about the swamps of Okefenokee in her book.
Jun 16, 2016 · Like the Lorax, Annie Proulx speaks for the trees. Her new novel, “Barkskins,” is a clamorous epic of environmental despoliation. It plays out across 717 pages and more than 300 years, from the...
Dec 16, 2022 · Since her debut on the American literary scene at the age of 56, Proulx, the Pulitzer-winner who broke new ground in her realist portrayals of 20th-century American life, has defied...
