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...

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,...

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...

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 latter brought the twenty-eight-year-old the...