EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Annie Proulx , the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner behind titles like Brokeback Mountain and The Shipping News .

Proulx’s best known work would have to be Brokeback Mountain , the short story published in 1997, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film from Ang Lee, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. A queer drama centered around two cowboys who develop a secret, powerful, life-long bond, the story was published in The New Yorker, earning her a National Magazine Award and the first of two O. Henry Awards. Lee’s 2005 adaptation won Oscars for Adapted Screenplay, Original Score and Best Director.

Proulx’s canon consists of darkly comic, evocative fiction about rural America. She made her literary debut with

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