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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 “ Brokeback Mountain, ” which originally appeared in  The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award– winning film.   Fen, Bog, and Swamp  is her second work of nonfiction.   She lives in New Hampshire.