I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned E. Annie Proulx who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other major awards, for The Shipping News. Her wonderful story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories contains "Brokeback Mountain." (Both these titles have been adapted into award winning movies.) The current issue of The New Yorker (where "Brokeback Mountain" first appeared) contains a new story titled "Them Old Cowboy Songs." I do purely love this lady's writing.

—BK