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Annie Proulx, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Shipping News and wrote the story behind the movie Brokeback Mountain, is donating her papers to the New York Public Library.
Proulx’s papers include an early draft of the cowboy romance when it had working titles such as Bulldust Mountain and Swill-Swallow Mountain along with:
“… 4,200 pages of short stories, essays, poems and screenplays; 145 pages of preparatory notes and research and three original notebooks with holograph draft ideas; more than 1,060 pages of holograph diary; more than 10,200 pages of typescript, much of it with holograph revisions and corrections, 2,100 galley proofs, and 1,855 pages of other related materials. Correspondence, including email totals more than 4,500 pages.”
Bringing her rural tales to the big city generates “an odd sense of balance” says the 74-year-old author.
