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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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Explore The Soul
- “Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will insti…”Sanchita Pandey
- “The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences.”Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those me…”douglas m laurent
God: more sayings
- “Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie”Bangambiki Habyarimana
- “My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?”Wade Boggs
- “The modern belief that highly advanced civilizations from other planets are visiting the Earth via spacecraft…”Jeffrey W. Mardis
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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