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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator—our very self-consciousness—is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. - Annie Dillard Attribution: Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author, poet. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6 (1974).

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Annie Dillard

Titles by Annie Dillard:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Encyclopedia:

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

Salem on Literature:

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

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

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