The Best American Short Stories 1997
In the only short fiction anthology that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished bestselling guest editor, this year's editor, E. Annie Proulx, has selected dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot Diaz, and T. Coraghessan Boyle, as well as an array of stunning new talent.
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)Literary CollectionsAmerican
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin
LENGTH381
LANGUAGEEN
Edna Ann Proulx 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.
The Best American Short Stories 1997
by Annie Proulx, Katrina Kenison
In the only short fiction anthology that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished bestselling guest editor, this year's editor, E. Annie Proulx, has selected dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot Diaz, and T. Coraghessan Boyle, as well as an array of stunning new talent.
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)Literary CollectionsAmerican
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin
LENGTH381
LANGUAGEEN
Edna Ann Proulx 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.
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