A Conversation With E. Annie Proulx
1993
National
Book
Award
Winner
Story by William David Barry AS 1 CHATTED with book reviewer Jack Barnes earlier this year, he happened to mention that novelist E. Annie Proulx, winner of the
P.E.N. Faulkner Award, was a grad¬ uate of Portland's Deering High School. Furthermore, he reported that her favorite teacher had been
Maine’s senior historian, whose book, The McArthurs of Limington, Maine (Muse Press, 1993), I'd just helped to introduce. This was my first knowledge of Proulx's Maine connections, but only the latest in a series of peripheral sightings of the
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