Annie Proulx is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Shipping News and Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story тАЬBrokeback Mountain,тАЭ which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy AwardтАУwinning film. Fen, Bog, and Swamp is her second work of nonfiction. She lives in New Hampshire.