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E. Annie Proulx Quote

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

E. Annie Proulx

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

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About E. Annie Proulx

Edna Ann Proulx ( PROO; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.