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Annie Dillard (née Doak; born April 30, 1945) [1] is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir.
A site maintained by Dillard herself, provides contact information as well as complete bibliographic information and a curriculum vitae.
Annie Dillard, American writer best known for her meditative essays on the natural world. Her books included Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), which won a Pulitzer Prize; The Living (1992), For the Time Being (1999), and The Maytrees (2007). Learn more about Dillard’s life and work.
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- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek---nonfiction narrative. In 1971 I wanted to try my hand at prose. My journals were full of facts that I used to write Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a sustained nonfiction narrative about the fields, creeks, woods, and mountains near Roanoke, Virginia.
- Holy the Firm---nonfiction narrative. One day while living on Lummi Island, off Bellingham, Washington, I resolved to write about, and make sense of, whatever happened on the island in the next three days.
- Living by Fiction---unlicensed literary theory. In Living by Fiction (1982), I compared surface flatness—then requisite in painting—to attempts to move literature in the same postmodernist direction.
- Teach a Stone to Talk---short nonfiction narrative essays and travels. "The Eclipse" got chosen for Best Essays of the Twentieth Century. "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" won the New York Women's Press Club award for its year.
Annie Dillard has been considered a major voice in American literature since she published Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1974 and won a Pulitzer Prize. Her reputation has increased steadily if bumpily since then.
Oct 3, 2013 · Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir.
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Mar 12, 2016 · The writer Annie Dillard has a new collection of her narrative essays. It's called "The Abundance." And the first piece in the book is a real stunner. It's 1979. She's on hillside near Yakima,...
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