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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull. - Annie Dillard Attribution: Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. essayist and autobiographer. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 1 (1974).

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Annie Dillard

Titles by Annie Dillard:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

eNotes:

• ‘‘The Waters of Separation’’: Myth and Ritual in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
• Perceptions of Nature: Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
• Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

Encyclopedia:

• Dillard, Annie (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Annie Dillard (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Annie Dillard (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Dillard, Annie (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Dillard, Annie (Vol. 115) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Annie Dillard is born
• Annie Dillard publishes Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Annie Dillard receives Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek