Mon Nov 2, 10:32 PM

In this undated publicity image released by Scribner Books, author E. Annie Proulx is shown. Proulx's works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and the short story 'Brokeback Mountain' that was the basis for the film starring Heath Ledger. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Scribner, Gus Powell)