Criticism

Bradbury, Malcolm. "The Bridgeable Gap." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4633 (17 January 1992): 7-9.

Compares Dillard's Writing Life with other works on creative writing and finds the book successful in describing writing as an activity.

Chénetier, Marc. "Tinkering, Extravagance: Thoreau, Melville, and Annie Dillard." Critique XXXI, No. 3 (Spring 1990): 157-72.

Considers the different treatments of nature and morality in Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Herman Melville's short stories, and Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Clark, Suzanne. "Annie Dillard: The Woman in Nature and the Subject of Nonfiction." In Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy, edited by Chris Anderson, pp. 107-24. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Argues that as a female nature writer, Dillard creates a distinct perspective.

Gaston, Patricia S. A Review of The Living, by Annie Dillard. Southern Humanities Review XXVII, No. 2 (Spring 1994): 198-99.

Finds The Living a typical example of historical fiction.

Goldman, Stan. "Sacrifices to the Hidden God: Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Leviticus." Soundings 74, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1991): 195-213.

Argues that the symbolism of sacrifice in the Bible chpater Leviticus is key to comprehending Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek.

Grumbach, Doris. A review of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. New Republic 170, No. 14 (6 April 1974): 32.

Praises Dillard's vision of nature and God in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Gunn, Janet Varner. "A Politics of Experience: Leila Khaled's My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary." In De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, pp. 65-80. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Uses Dillard's autobiography An American Childhood to make sense of Leila Khaled's autobiography.

―――――――. "A Window of Opportunity: An Ethics of Reading Third-World Autobiography." In Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom, edited by Allen Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz, pp. 271-78. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Compares Dillard's An American Childhood with other forms of autobiography.

Lund, Elizabeth. "Stanzas Spun from Inspiration." Christian Science Monitor 87 (7 September 1995): 13.

Argues that the poems in Mornings Like This: Found Poems vary in quality and have not been adequately developed.

Marget, Madeline. "Being around Words." Commonweal CXXIII, No. 7 (5 April 1996): 32-3.

Compliments editors Dillard and Cort Conley for their selections in the collection of autobiographical writings Modern American Memoirs.

Smith, Pamela A. "The Ecotheolony of Annie Dillard: A Study in Ambivalence." Cross Currents 45, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 341-58.

Argues that there are consistent theological elements in Dillard's writing.

Torrens, James S. "Of Many Things." America 171, No. 16 (19 November 1994): 1.

Reviews The Annie Dillard Reader, praising her writing style and discussing her relationship with the Catholic Church.

Webb, Stephen H. "Nature's Spendthrift Economy: The Extravagance of God in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." Soundings 77, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1994): 429-51.

Considers the techniques Dillard employs to develop her conceptualization of God.