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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 essays, but her literary contributions include a memoir...

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 executive in the old family firm, American Standard, bef...

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 western novel. In whatever genre she works, Dillard distingu...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard In 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek earned Annie Dillard the distinction of being the youngest person (at age thirty-one) ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Combining theological, scientific, and literary...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by Annie Dillard. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. The book is about Dillard's experiences at Tinker Creek, which is located in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. In the book, Dillard records...

Annie Dillard once wrote a guidebook called "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," describing for the vicarious traveler the holy joys of sightseeing in the Garden of Eden. Tinker Creek, at the time, was Dillard's own bosky corner of Piedmont Virginia. It was a small...

BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE By Fred Chappell St. Martin's. 212 pp. $15.95 AMERICAN LITERARY careers are made, they say, on the island of Manhattan, where authors, hugging glasses of warm white wine, hawk and hustle for prizes at flashy gatherings. Doubtless,...