Annie Proulx (b. 1935)
“Caprock State Park TX”
Pen, ink, and watercolor, 2000
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
“Caprock State Park TX”
As her writing attests, Annie Proulx is a keen observer of the natural world. The landscape of North America figures prominently in her fiction: the tempestuous sea in her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shipping News (1993); high prairies dappled in “broken-cloud light” in “Brokeback Mountain” (1997); forests of “evergreens taller than cathedrals, cloud-piercing spruce and hemlock” in her bestselling epic Barkskins (2016).
She captures the environment, with all of its harshness and beauty, in detailed sketches as well as in her lyrical prose. Her attentiveness is apparent in these minute studies of four plants found in remote northern Texas. The page is also headed “Ace in the Hole,” a reference to her similarly titled 2003 novel, set in a fictitious Texas backwater town called Woolybucket.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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