Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003
Customs of the Country
By Caroline Fraser
That Old Ace in the Hole
by Annie Proulx
Scribner, 359 pp., $26.00
Born in 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, the eldest of five daughters of George Napoleon Proulx, vice-president of a textile company, and Lois Nelly Proulx, a painter and naturalist whose family had lived in Connecticut since 1635, Annie Proulx grew up in towns throughout New England. She graduated with a degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned a master's degree, passing oral examinations for a Ph.D. in history in 1975. But then Proulx's career took a turn. Discouraged by 'the lack of teaching jobs in my field'—or so she wrote in a brief autobiographical note in Contemporary Authors—she accomplished the academic equivalent of busting herself down to private, embarking on a punishing program of self-rustication:
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