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Annie Dillard
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| Annie Dillard | |
| Born: | 30 April 1945 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Occupation: | poet, diarist, essayist, novelist, literary critic |
| Nationality: | American |
| Writing period: | 1974 — present |
| Influences: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Website: | www.anniedillard.com |
Annie Dillard (born 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American author.
Dillard was raised in Point Breeze. She attended The Ellis School, and began writing poetry while there. She earned her B.A. and M.A. at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia where she married her writing professor, R. H. W. Dillard. After nearly dying from pneumonia, Dillard began a diary, which formed the basis of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for Tinker Creek. She is also well known for her memoir about growing up in Pittsburgh, An American Childhood.
Dillard also wrote an essay called The Deer at Providencia and the book "Teaching a Stone to Talk".
- 1974 Tickets for a Prayer Wheel ISBN 0-8195-6536-9
- 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ISBN 0-06-095302-0
- 1977 Holy The Firm ISBN 0-06-091543-9
- 1982 Living By Fiction ISBN 0-06-091544-7
- 1982 Teaching a Stone To Talk ISBN 0-06-091541-2
- 1984 Encounters with Chinese Writers ISBN 0-8195-6156-8
- 1987 An American Childhood ISBN 0-06-091518-8
- 1989 The Writing Life ISBN 0-06-091988-4
- 1992 The Living ISBN 0-06-092411-X
- 1995 Mornings Like This: Found Poems ISBN 0-06-092725-9
- 1999 For the Time Being ISBN 0-375-40380-9
- 2007 The Maytrees: A Novel ISBN 0-06-123953-4 (Scheduled release June 1, 2007)
- The Secrets of the Universe as Decoded by the Unhinged (Official Annie Dillard Website)
- Featured Author: Dillard Articles
- The Ecotheology of Annie Dillard: A Study in Ambivalence
- Ideas are tough; irony is easy
- A Pilgrim's Progress
- Tete a tete: Lunch with Annie Dillard
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