What 2005 film, directed by Ang Lee, was based on a short story by Annie Proulx?
Annie Proulx Annie Proulx Edna Ann Proulx (; born August 22, 1935) 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". 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
Annie Proulx 1999. Both appear in her 1999 collection of short stories, "". The lead story in this collection, entitled "The Half-Skinned Steer", was selected by author Garrison Keillor for inclusion in "The Best American Short Stories 1998," (Proulx herself edited the 1997 edition of this series) and later by novelist John Updike for inclusion in "The Best American Short Stories of the Century" (1999). In 2001 Proulx was one of the writers heavily criticized by Brian Reynolds Myers in his polemical work "A Reader's Manifesto". In 2007, the composer Charles Wuorinen approached Proulx with the idea of turning her short story