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About Annie Dillard
American author
Annie Dillard is an American author known for narrative prose in fiction and nonfiction. She published poetry, essays, prose, literary criticism, two novels, and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, she taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Books by Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1990
The writing life
1998
The Maytrees CD
2007
Teaching a Stone to Talk
1982
For the Time Being
1999