The collection was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. It was originally published in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997, for which it won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1998. ' Brokeback Mountain' is a short story by American author Annie Proulx.
