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Annie Proulx on Postcards - The John Adams Institute

On June 3, 1996, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with the American novelist Annie Proulx (1935), who caused a literary sensation with her first novel 'Postcards' (1992). She continued to surprise readers and critics alike with her second novel, 'The Shipping News' (1993), for which she won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Everything in Proulx's writing is extraordinary, and verges on absurdism. Her novels are inhabited by obscure characters from dysfunctional families, who find themselves entangled in complicated plots. Postcards is based on picture postcards mailed from the road over a period of forty years, describing changes in American life over the last four decades. Proulx lives in Wyoming. Her sudden success did not alter her passion for writing. "The writing was something that I kept to myself; not a secret vice, but certainly a secret pleasure."