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Additional authors

1. Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
2. Collins, Billy.
3. Connaroe, Joel.
4. Duberstein, Helen.
5. Dynak, Sharon.
6. Flory, Sheldon.
7. Gardner, A. Dudley.
8. Goldman, Francisco.
9. Gorman, Skip.
10. Klipper, Stuart, 1941-
11. Lang, Jim.
12. McMurtry, Larry.
13. Muldoon, Paul.
14. Murphy, Rex.
15. Nichols, Lewis.
16. Proulx, Annie.
17. Proulx, Lois Gill.
18. Proulx, Louis Gill.
19. Proulx, Rex.
20. Proulx, Roger.
21. Proulx, Ron.
22. Ricketts, Cathy.
23. Ricketts, Doug.
24. Ricketts, Lindsey.
25. Roberts, Roberta.
26. Roberts, Sarah.
27. Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991.
28. Seybold, David.
29. Streitfield, David.
30. Strong, Horace.
31. Swift, Clint.
32. Warner, Alan.
33. Warner, William.
34. Watkin, Tom.

Description

1. 178 linear feet (356 manuscript boxes), 3715 megabytes (2478 computer files).

Summary

1. Organized into 23 series: Series 1: Writings by Annie Proulx ; Series 2: Artwork by Annie Proulx ; Series 3: Correspondence ; Series 4: Research ; Series 5: Other Projects Series 6: Works by Others ; Series 7: Photographs ; Series 8: Genealogical Papers ; Series 9: Personal Records ; Series 10: Address Books and Monthly Planners ; Series 11: Ephemera ; Series 12: Material related to the estate of Lois Gill Proulx ; Series 13: Publisher’s Artwork and Promotional Material ; Series 14: Material Related to Scheduled Literary Events ; Series 15: Awards ; Series 16: Property Records ; Series 17: Publishing and Other Contracts ; Series 18: Miscellaneous Printed ; Series 19: Electronic Records ; Series 20: Audio Cassettes, VHS, DVDs, CDs ; Series 21: Restricted Material ; Series 22: Realia ; Series 23: Financial Papers.
2. The archive comprises material related to the publication of four short-story collections written and/ or composed by Proulx during this period, as well as uncollected short stories; material related to the composition and publication of four novels published between 1992 and 2002; material related to the composition of nonfiction articles, essays, and books, including freelance magazine work done by Proulx in the 1980’s and several “how-to” gardening and cooking publications; four academic theses completed by Proulx while she was a history student at the University of Vermont and George Williams University; a holograph journal begun by Proulx on 1976, and concluded on March 18, 1977, while she was living in the North Kingdom of Vermont (restricted until after the death of the author); book reviews, public remarks, interviews, book proposals, and a small section of poetry written by Annie Proulx. The archive also includes some born-digital drafts of works and correspondence, and her sketchbooks and watercolors of landscapes and people.
3. Also contains Proulx’s extensive research files, which include maps and guides organized by region, project files with articles organized by subject, and hundreds of research photographs, many organized by place. Other photographs in the archive include portraits of Annie Proulx, photographs of literary events, and photographs from Proulx’s childhood and of family and friends.
4. Also includes a large collection of artwork by Proulx’s mother, painter and amateur naturalist Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, and her estate papers, as well as a collection of genealogical and property records retained by Proulx.
5. The archive is rich in both incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters to and from writers and friends; agents and publishers; translators, and readers. In many cases, Proulx retained copies of her outgoing personal and business letters. Correspondence from fans of “Brokeback Mountain” is restricted for the life of the author, as is Proulx’s Vermont journal.

Subject

1. Red Desert (Wyo. : Desert) > History
2. Young men > Fiction
3. Accordion > History > Fiction
4. Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.) > Fiction
5. Homosexuality and motion pictures
6. Cowboys > Wyoming > Fiction
7. Rural conditions > United States > Fiction
8. Musical fiction
9. Contracts
10. Historical fiction—19th century
11. Authors and publishers > United States > 20th century > Correspondence
12. Wyoming > Description and travel
13. Royalty statements
14. Homosexuality in motion pictures
15. Photographs > United States > 20th century
16. Correspondence
17. Journalists > United States > Fiction
18. Western United States > Fiction
19. Short stories, American > Women authors
20. Denver (Colo.) > Fiction
21. Notebooks
22. Short stories, American > 20th century
23. Audiocassettes
24. Photographs > United States > 21st century
25. Scrapbooks
26. Short stories, American > West (U.S.)
27. Authors and publishers > United States > 20th century > Non-fiction
28. Authors and publishers > United States > 20th century > Fiction
29. Clippings files
30. Accordionists > United States > Fiction
31. Printed ephemera
32. DVD (Digital video discs)
33. Indians of North America > History
34. Manuscripts
35. Motion picture authorship
36. Fiction, American > Women authors
37. Watercolors > United States > 20th century
38. Realia
39. Natural history > Wyoming > Red Desert (Desert)
40. Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction
41. Japanese Americans > History
42. Historical fiction—20th century
43. Chinese Americans > History
44. West (U.S.) > 20th century > Fiction
45. Journals
46. Short stories, American > 21st century
47. Gay men > United States > Fiction
48. Farm life > United States > Fiction
49. Short stories, American > Wyoming
50. Texas Panhandle (Tex.) > Fiction
51. Wyoming > Biography
52. West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations
53. CD-ROMs
54. Domestic fiction, American
55. Shoshoni Indians > History
56. Wyoming > Social life and customs > Fiction
57. Union Pacific Railroad Company
58. Ranch life > Fiction
59. Western stories > Fiction
60. Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Audiocassettes.
2. CD-ROMs.
3. Clippings files.
4. Correspondence.
5. Contracts.
6. DVD (Digital video discs).
7. Historical fiction—19th century.
8. Historical fiction—20th century
9. Journals.
10. Manuscripts.
11. Musical fiction
12. Notebooks.
13. Photographs – United States – 20th century.
14. Photographs – United States – 21st century.
15. Printed ephemera.
16. Realia.
17. Royalty statements.
18. Scrapbooks.
19. Watercolors – United States – 20th century.

Call number

1. Berg Coll Proulx MSS 1935-2010

Note

1. The archive includes one computer printout of a draft of the novel Barkskins, from 2014. This is the sole item in the archive that does not fall within the inclusive and bulk date ranges.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Biography (note)

1. Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River.

Author

1. Proulx, Annie.

Title

1. The Annie Proulx Papers : 1935-2010 (bulk 1980-2007).

Imprint

1. [Vershire, Vt.; Wyoming; etc., 1964-2007]

Biography

1. Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River.

Access

1. Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
2. Collins, Billy.
3. Connaroe, Joel.
4. Duberstein, Helen.
5. Dynak, Sharon.
6. Flory, Sheldon.
7. Gardner, A. Dudley.
8. Goldman, Francisco.
9. Gorman, Skip.
10. Klipper, Stuart, 1941-
11. Lang, Jim.
12. McMurtry, Larry.
13. Muldoon, Paul.
14. Murphy, Rex.
15. Nichols, Lewis.
16. Proulx, Annie. Artist
17. Proulx, Lois Gill. Artist
18. Proulx, Louis Gill.
19. Proulx, Rex.
20. Proulx, Roger.
21. Proulx, Ron.
22. Ricketts, Cathy.
23. Ricketts, Doug.
24. Ricketts, Lindsey.
25. Roberts, Roberta.
26. Roberts, Sarah.
27. Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991.
28. Seybold, David.
29. Streitfield, David.
30. Strong, Horace.
31. Swift, Clint.
32. Warner, Alan.
33. Warner, William.
34. Watkin, Tom.

Research call number

1. Berg Coll Proulx MSS 1935-2010