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Annie Dillard

Teoksen Pilgrim at Tinker Creek tekijä

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Tietoja tekijästä

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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) 5,453 kappaletta
The Writing Life (1989) 2,556 kappaletta
An American Childhood (1987) 2,203 kappaletta
For the Time Being (1999) 1,246 kappaletta
The Maytrees: A Novel (2007) 1,244 kappaletta
The Living (1992) 1,196 kappaletta
Holy the Firm (1977) 1,172 kappaletta
Living by Fiction (1982) 764 kappaletta
The Annie Dillard Reader (1994) 354 kappaletta
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974) 269 kappaletta
Mornings Like This: Found Poems (1995) 215 kappaletta
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Toimittaja — 189 kappaletta

Associated Works

Puu kasvaa Brooklynissa (1943)eräät painokset16,405 kappaletta
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Avustaja — 1,371 kappaletta
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Avustaja — 774 kappaletta
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2004) — Avustaja — 757 kappaletta
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (1987) — Avustaja — 495 kappaletta
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Avustaja — 414 kappaletta
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Avustaja — 409 kappaletta
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Avustaja — 370 kappaletta
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Avustaja — 335 kappaletta
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Avustaja — 191 kappaletta
The Best American Essays 1999 (1999) — Avustaja — 184 kappaletta
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Avustaja — 142 kappaletta
The Best American Essays 1990 (1990) — Avustaja — 117 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Avustaja — 117 kappaletta
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (1986) — Avustaja — 103 kappaletta
The Best American Essays 1989 (1989) — Avustaja — 100 kappaletta
A Literary Christmas: Great Contemporary Christmas Stories (1992) — Avustaja — 70 kappaletta
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Avustaja — 46 kappaletta
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Avustaja — 33 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Meditations In Light (1989) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Night: A Literary Companion (2009) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Virallinen nimi
Doak, Meta Ann (born)
Syntymäaika
1945-04-30
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Maa (karttaa varten)
USA
Syntymäpaikka
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Asuinpaikat
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Koulutus
Hollins College (BA|English)
Hollins College (MA|English)
The Ellis School
Ammatit
poet
professor
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
literary critic (näytä kaikki 7)
painter
Suhteet
Dillard, R. H. W. (husband|divorced)
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. (husband)
Smith, Lee (friend)
Organisaatiot
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
International PEN
Poetry Society of America
Society of American Historians
NAACP
National Citizens for Public Libraries (näytä kaikki 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
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
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) (näytä kaikki 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)
Agentti
Timothy Seldes (Russell and Volkening)

Jäseniä

Keskustelut

Annie Dillard, Non-Fiction Readers (huhtikuu 2016)
Group Read- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (helmikuu 2014)

Kirja-arvosteluja

Wonderful book. Something of a departure for me, as generally I like to read more science based nature books. This one was full of poetry, philosophy, Pliny quotes and particle physics. There are scenes that might haunt you for years to come ( a butterfly from her school days, a section on parasites) and other parts that might lift your spirit. There is very little straightforward narrative, so if you are looking for that , look elsewhere.
 
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cspiwak | 104 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 6, 2024 |
How could an Annie Dillard book only get four stars from me? I'm thinking about it in the context of her other work. I came to this book expecting it to be a book from which I could glean some writing advice, even if not directly. And that's how the book is marketed in most contexts. I wasn't able. Not any more than I could from Cather's *O Pioneers* which I just finished. Or from a collection of James Wright's letters. Part of learning to write is to learn what you like from other writers and to emulate them. I guess. That's certainly true about this book. There are few writers who write more compelling and transcendent descriptions than Dillard. My only criticism is that the book lacked focus. It feels like a collection of essays written over the years that didn't really fit into any other collections. Each was beautiful in its own right. But that last chapter about the aerial stunt pilot is incredible. Dillard prose feels both musical and balletic. Like a conductor bringing a score into being without playing an instrument. Magic.… (lisätietoja)
 
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trauman | 54 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 6, 2024 |
Beautiful essays and encouragement on the writing process. Dillard is like an old friend.
 
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Aidan767 | 54 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 1, 2024 |
One of the best books I ever read; it changed my life. It might have helped that Tinker Creek is just a few miles away from the place I spent my childhood summers - pretty much alone with the woods and apple trees and enchantment of the mountains near Roanoke, Virginia.
 
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BethOwl | 104 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 24, 2024 |

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