Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Critical Overview
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is widely recognized as an important personal essay, uniquely and powerfully combining theology and nature writing. Nancy Parrish reports in Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers that the book’s success was immediate: ‘‘thirty-seven thousand copies of Pilgrim were sold within two months of first publication; the book went through eight printings in the first two years; paperback rights and Book-of-the-Month Club selection brought her $250,000 within three months.’’ The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
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