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Annie Dillard
The best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.
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With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity, and daring that is the writer’s life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing…
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Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , this is Annie Dillard’s memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
In this compact volume, Annie Dillard collects together her favourite selections from her own writings.
The author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek writes about contemporary writers, from Calvino to Marquez.
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Now available in one ovlume, here is a collection of three popular books–Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, and The Writing Life. One of the most distinctiv voices in…
‘Expedition to the Pole’ was first published in The Yale Literary Magazine, vol. 150, no. 1, June 1982. –Title page verso.
Set in the last decades of the 19th century, this sweeping narrative by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the story of one town, near Washington’s Puget Sound, during its birth…
In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old–and often odd–books, and composes ironic poems–some serious, some light–on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death…
These are selected samples from 35 20th-century memoirs, chosen for their value as examples of the art of biography as well as for their writing. The excerpts present a broad…
In this powerfully moving novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dillard displays penetrating insight into the human condition with a remarkable story about the unknowable, unbreakable bonds of love and family.
A collection of author-curated pieces that celebrates the essayist’s career and offers insight into her establishment of the novelized nonfiction form.
Explores the rich diversities of our world, ranging from a natural history of sand to the rise of Hasidic thought to the eternal questions of God, evil, individuality, and time.
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A dazzling celebration of the natural world and our place in it from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer.
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This winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and listed by the New York Times as one of the best 100 non-fiction books of the century, gives timeless reflections on…
In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek…
Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first book.
This astonishing collection of excerpts drawn from extraordinary 20th century American memoirs delights, surprises and enriches. Including work by James Baldwin, Kate Simon, Geoffrey Wolf and Margaret Mead, each entry…
Essays on nature from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and farmlands, the Pacific Northwest coast, and tropical islands and rivers.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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Sandra Humble Johnson
Dillard has become a representative of a neoromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This study of the Pulitzer…
COLLEEN WARREN
Annie Dillard and the Word Made Flesh engages two of Dillard’s most defining characteristics: her belief in the power of language and her Christian faith. As a writer, Dillard particularly…
Lori A Kanitz
For the duration of her writing career, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has unflinchingly asked and kept on asking enormous and difficult questions: What is the relation of Creator to…
A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.
Philip Harnden
Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind? What do we carry with us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more…
Offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
Offers vignettes of forty travellers and the few things they carried with them from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death, such as: What Thoreau took…
Sue Yore
This book challenges experiential, esoteric and colloquial understandings of mysticism by bringing a fresh relevance to the term through an interdisciplinary dialogue between literature, mysticism and theology in the context…
James I. McClintock
The writers featured in this volume have all recorded their encounters with nature. McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and…
