Dillard, Annie
Dillard, Annie( 1945–),Pittsburgh-born essayist on ecological subjects, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, Pulitzer Prize), a sensitive view of the natural surroundings in which she lives. She has also written Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974), poetry; Holy the Firm (1977); and Teaching a Stone To Talk (1982), further essays on nature. Other works are Living by Fiction (1978), essays on contemporary fiction and writers; The Writing Life 1989, more essays; and a novel, The Living (1992), about the frontier settlement experiences of people in the American Northwest in the last decades of the 19th century. Mornings Like This (1995) is a collection of “found poems.” For the Time Being (1999) returns to personal narrative and the theme of natural history.
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