Dillard, Annie (1945—)
One of the best-known writers of the twentieth century and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, Annie Dillard developed a following unique among writ...
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Annie Dillard (1945 – ) American Writer
Often compared to the American naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Dillard—a novelist, memoir writer, essayist, poet, and author of books about the na...
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Annie Dillard has carved a unique niche for herself in the world of American letters. Over the course of her career, Dillard has written essays, a memoir, poetry, literary criticism, and even a wester...
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Annie Dillard--the eldest of three daughters of Frank and Pam Doak--grew up in a world of country clubs, debutante parties, and private girls' schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father was an ex...
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Annie Dillard, a contemporary nature writer of major significance, combines the study of nature with readings in theology, philosophy, and the sciences. Dillard writes primarily narrative nonfiction e...
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Poet, essayist, and novelist Annie Dillard entered the 1974 literary scene with a book of poems called Tickets for a Prayer Wheel and a Thoreauvian natural history titled Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The ...
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In the essay below, Reimer argues that Dillard employs a dual dialectic in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, first between nature and religion, then between beauty and horror.
When Pilgrim at Tinker Creek a...
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In the essay below, Brown-Davidson provides an overview of Dillard's works.
Imagine this. You are a lectured-into-submission child, attending another dull Protestant church service with your...
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In the following essay, McClintock considers Dillard's work in comparison to the genre of American environmental writing, arguing that her work is uniquely Christian in perspective.
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In the excerpt below, Haines argues that Dillard's experimentations in Mornings Like This raise some disturbing questions about sources.
When I first looked through Annie Dillard's Mo...
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In the following essay, McConahay compares Henry David Thoreau's Walden to Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, noting that both writers focus on self in their efforts to explain the unive...
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In the essay below, Scheick discusses the narrative structure of Dillard's works and the junctions she creates between elements in her narrative.
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery,...
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In the essay below, Tietjen argues that Dillard focuses too much on individual experience in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and misleads the reader.
She stared as if she were about to tell me that she dre...
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In the following essay, Felch provides an overview of Dillard's writing and investigates how physics has shaped Dillard's cosmology.
"Art is my interest, mysticism my message, ...
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In the following essay, Bischoff compares Dillard's American Childhood with Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography The Woman Warrior, noting that despite different backgrounds the two auth...
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In the review below, Berne argues that The Writing Life is at its best when Dillard is less strident and relentless.
What happens when you've been writing seriously for years, devoting much ...
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In the following review of The Living, Keneally praises Dillard's style and tone.
Annie Dillard, a poet and essayist whose nonfiction work has won the Pulitzer Prize, has moved to fiction no...
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In the following review of The Living, Ganz praises Dillard's ability to find meaning in ordinary settings.
With Annie Dillard's first novel [The Living], a frontier saga of life alon...
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John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both describe the flights of the flocks of birds the see, incorporating their feelings about the experience into their observations. Audubon approaches his flock's...
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THE MAYTREESBy Annie Dillard HarperCollins, 224 pages, $24.95
Annie Dillard gets it right twice in her second novel. As well as being the compelling story of a couple who marry just after World W...
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