Transcript: E. Annie Proulx Award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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May 31, 1994
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: An author whose work has been called `weird and quirky,' walks away with this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. First, headlines from Carl Kasell.

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EDWARDS: Writer Annie Proulx has had an amazing year. Her first two novels, Postcards and The Shipping News, written in mid-life by a small-town Vermonter, won four major literary awards. The most recent was presented in New York last week. NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg went to Columbia University to watch Annie Proulx accept the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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