Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and several other novels, has also written a memoir, a handful of nonfiction books, and four story collections, including three volumes of Wyoming Stories. Her other awards include the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which first appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film.