Annie Dillard
Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
About the Author
Annie Dillard was born Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1945. She received a B.A and an M.A. in English from Hollins College. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books including Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Holy the Firm, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Living, and Mornings Like show more This: Found Poems. She won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She wrote an autobiography entitled An American Childhood. Her work also has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and Cosmopolitan. She taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Annie Dillard
Three By Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - An American Childhood - The Writing Life (1990) 649 copies
Annie Dillard 2 copies
Schedules 1 copy
Dillrd, Annie Archive 1 copy
Annie Dillard, 3 novels by 1 copy
How We Spend Our Days 1 copy
Walden Pond and Thoreau 1 copy
Associated Works
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduction — 377 copies
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contributor — 183 copies
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributor — 132 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 131 copies
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 81 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
Seeing Beyond: Movies, Visions, and Values (Studies in the Film Series) (2001) — Contributor — 5 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Doak, Meta Ann (born)
- Birthdate
- 1945-04-30
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Hollins College (BA|English)
Hollins College (MA|English)
The Ellis School - Occupations
- poet
professor
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
literary critic (show all 7)
painter - Relationships
- Dillard, R. H. W. (husband|divorced)
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. (husband)
Smith, Lee (friend) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
International PEN
Poetry Society of America
Society of American Historians
NAACP
National Citizens for Public Libraries (show all 15)
Phi Beta Kappa
Harper's Magazine (editor)
Western Washington University (scholar-in-residence)
Wesleyan University (professor)
Wesleyan Writers' Conference (chair)
American Heritage Dictionary (usage panelistl)
Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs
Partners in Health
The Virginia Woolfs - Awards and honors
- Campion Award (1994)
Washington Governor's Award for Literature (1977)
Appalachian Gold Medallion ( [1989])
St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award (1989)
History Maker Award (Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania ∙ 1993)
Connecticut Governor's Arts Award (1993) (show all 14)
Milton Prize (1994)
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (1997)
Academy Award in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters ∙ 1998)
New York Public Library Literary Lion (1984)
Boston Public Library Literary Light (1990)
Middletown Commission on the Arts Award (1987)
Phi Beta Kappa
Bollingen Prize (1984) - Agent
- Timothy Seldes (Russell and Volkening)
Members
Discussions
Annie Dillard in Non-Fiction Readers (April 2016)
Group Read- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (February 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 32
- Also by
- 35
- Members
- 19,776
- Popularity
- #1,096
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 357
- ISBNs
- 239
- Languages
- 8
- Favorited
- 118