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Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author.Studying at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, Proulx graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1969. She then received her Master of Arts from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Quebec in 1973 and began working as a journalist soon thereafter.Proulx's first novel, Postcards, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She followed this with The Shipping News (1993), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a film in 2001. Her short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.