Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author.

Born Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she attended Hollins College in Virginia where as a sophomore she married her writing teacher, R.H.W. Dillard.

She won the Pulitzer Prize (non-fiction) in 1975 with her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which is a meditation on her observations of the natural world at Tinker Creek. Some have called it a work of mysticism or theology. This combination of observations on nature and philosophical explorations is also present in several of her other books, including For the Time Being and Holy the Firm.

Bibliography

• 1974 Tickets for a Prayer Wheel ISBN 0-81-956536-9 (reissue edition) (poetry)
• 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ISBN 0-06-095302-0 (prose)
• 1977 Holy The Firm ISBN 0-06-091543-9 (prose)
• 1982 Living By Fiction ISBN 0-06-091544-7 (prose/essays)
• 1982 Teaching a Stone To Talk ISBN 0-06-091541-2 (prose/essays)
• 1987 An American Childhood ISBN 0-06-091518-8 (a memoir)
• 1989 The Writing Life ISBN 0-06-091988-4 (memoir/book about writing)
• 1992 The Living ISBN 0-06-092411-X (novel)
• 1995 Mornings Like This: Found Poems ISBN 0-06-092725-9 (poetry)
• 1999 For the Time Being ISBN 0-37-540380-9 (prose/essays)

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