WRITER

Annie Dillard

1945 - Today

Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (née Doak; 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 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Dillard has received more than 686,387 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Annie Dillard is the 6,573rd most popular writer (down from 5,978th in 2019), the 12,755th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,163rd in 2019) and the 927th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Nature, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction

1974

The Living

Fiction, History, Drama

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

1992

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Life, Nature, Ecology

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

1982

An American childhood

American Authors, Authors, American, Biography

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

1987

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Nature

What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between, and something quite beautiful. It is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley for a period of several years.

1974

For the time being

American essays, Essays, Good and evil

Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard poses questions about God, natural evil, and individual existence. Personal experience, science, and religion bear on a welter of fact. How can an individual matter? How might one live?Compassionate, informative, enthralling, always surprising, For the Time Being shows one of our most original writers--her breadth of knowledge matched by keen powers of observation, all of it informing her relentless curiosity--in the fullness of her powers.From the Hardcover edition.

1999

Page views of Annie Dillards by language

Over the past year Annie Dillard has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 79,764 views, followed by French (3,454), and German (2,591). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (62.29%), Swedish (54.77%), and Egyptian Arabic (53.53%)