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Stradivari's secrets still elude experts
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As skilled as many of them are, today's violin makers and players still work in the shadow of Antonio Stradivari. Living from 1644 to 1737, Stradivari remains one of the greatest makers in history and one of the most widely known among his contemporaries who worked in the northern Italian city of Cremona.
In the centuries since then, makers, historians and scientists have been obsessed with trying to define and reproduce whatever it is that makes Stradivari's instruments so special. Many seem to have found tantalizing pieces of the mystery, but efforts to capture the secret formula that died ...
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E. Annie Proulx Award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...Weird, quirky,' words applied to her writing. E. Annie Proulx. The `E' is for Edna, and Proulx is spelled P-R-O...rhymes with `true,' a nice touch for a writer. E. Annie Proulx has been compared to Dickens, Faulkner, Dreiser...
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WESTERN WORDSMITH E. ANNIE PROULX NAMED `EVIL COMPANION'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...Bornstein News Staff Writer Author E. Annie Proulx has called Wyoming her ``writing...after a fur-trapping ancestor), Proulx once said: ``Wyoming just shakes...McGuane CAPTION(S): Photo Author E. Annie Proulx of Wyoming has earned her writing...
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Postcards from the solitary life Writer Annie Proulx enjoys success and independence
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...It's best to visit author E. Annie Proulx after the snow and ice have given...then up a water-creviced hill to Proulx's house, which is set against a hilly field. Proulx did much of the work on her six...
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AT CLOSE RANGE IN HIS FINAL INTERVIEW, ALAN DUMAS ENJOYS A RARE HOME VISIT WITH E. ANNIE PROULX.(Books)(Interview)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...out to interview and photograph E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed...Accordion Crimes and Postcards. Proulx, 63, has a reputation for being...interview was somewhat of a coup: Proulx had invited Dumas into her home...
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A conversation with author E. Annie Proulx. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; SAN FRANCISCO _ E. Annie Proulx is telling another story. It's what...I didn't need to live it.'' Proulx, 58, out on the road promoting...empty, very, very rough,'' says Proulx (rhymes with true) of the place she...
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Annie Proulx's Squeeze Play / Success can be tiring, `Accordion' author says.(Interview)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; Novelist E. Annie Proulx, whose "The Shipping News" won a...She left me a broken rocking chair." Proulx, 60, is tall and unglamorous, dressed...between the lines to find out more about E. Annie Proulx. Writing about yourself is a mistake...
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Green 'cordeen // Annie Proulx squeezes the small stuff
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Accordion Crimes By E. Annie Proulx. Scribners. $25. A little green button accordion isn't much to build a novel on. But E. Annie Proulx of the deliciously quirky 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Life's difficult truths Annie Proulx's characters, story lines lend honesty, humor to tough situations.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...winning movie in 2005, Annie Proulx is still criticized for...however, nothing holds. And Proulx's characters are indeed...didn't pay to love." Proulx balances the dark places...his boredom, demands the e-mails of ornithologists...
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Winner Gets Personal At the Penn; Annie Proulx Makes Plea to End Illiteracy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...mention unpredictable. So it was that E. Annie Proulx, chosen for her first novel...the book-worshiping audience. Proulx said she wasn't yet sure how...PEN/Faulkner Foundation President E. Barrett Prettyman Jr. presented...
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Books: Twisters in the tale Tall stories meet big winds and dark secrets in Annie Proulx's Texas. Graham Caveney whoops with delight
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the Great Depression. Proulx manages to skirt around...is to do his job, but Proulx sidesteps expectations...on self-parody ("C E Williams of Panhandle...beneath footnotes; but Proulx lends them such anecdotal...Willa Cather. That said, Annie Proulx's voice remains...
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