BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Author Plans to Move Out of Seattle Because of Tree Allergy and Dislike of 'Techies'

Author of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Annie Proulx, recently moved to Seattle to be near the red cedar trees, which she loves and has written about in her books. However, she told the Guardian that she has been sick ever since moving, and has discovered that she's actually allergic to the trees.

"I've been sick since I've arrived," Proulx says. "Finally we figured out that, ironically, I'm really allergic to red cedar, which is all around me. It brings on asthma and other symptoms. It affects my whole immune system, so I have to pull up stakes and go somewhere else where it won't follow me."

She also says, "I get tired of seeing people high-fiving each other. It's full of techies; it's just bursting with tech people."

Proulx is now planning on moving to the New England area.

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Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards.

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