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Annie Dillard


Born
in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States
April 30, 1945

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Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry


Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 89,872 ratings · 10,173 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
4.08 avg rating — 28,169 ratings — published 1974 — 79 editions
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The Writing Life
3.98 avg rating — 17,559 ratings — published 1989 — 46 editions
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An American Childhood
3.91 avg rating — 10,298 ratings — published 1987 — 51 editions
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: E...
4.15 avg rating — 6,545 ratings — published 1982 — 44 editions
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The Maytrees
3.61 avg rating — 6,549 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions
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Holy the Firm
4.21 avg rating — 5,120 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
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For the Time Being: Essays
4.14 avg rating — 4,233 ratings — published 1999 — 36 editions
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The Living
3.84 avg rating — 3,200 ratings — published 1992 — 33 editions
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The Abundance
4.02 avg rating — 2,167 ratings — published 2016 — 27 editions
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Living by Fiction
3.95 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living
tags: books, literature, reading, words
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
tags: life, living
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