Summary: | Annie Proulx, born in Norwich, Connecticut (1935). She became a novelist after many years of fishing, hunting, and foraging for food in backwoods of Vermont, a life that suited what she call 'my fondness for harshness'. She supported herself as a freelance journalist, churning out 'tedious non-fiction', including such books as "Sweet and hard cider" and "The Complete dairy foods cookbook". Her first novel, Postcards (1992) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. This program documents the life Annie Proulx.
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