Imatge de l'autor

Annie Dillard

Autor/a de Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

32+ obres 19,774 Membres 357 Ressenyes 118 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Phyllis Rose

Obres de Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) 5,453 exemplars
The Writing Life (1989) 2,555 exemplars
An American Childhood (1987) 2,203 exemplars
For the Time Being (1999) 1,246 exemplars
The Maytrees: A Novel (2007) 1,244 exemplars
The Living (1992) 1,196 exemplars
Holy the Firm (1977) 1,171 exemplars
Living by Fiction (1982) 764 exemplars
The Annie Dillard Reader (1994) 354 exemplars
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974) 269 exemplars
Mornings Like This: Found Poems (1995) 215 exemplars
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Editor — 189 exemplars

Obres associades

Creix un arbre a Brooklyn (1943)algunes edicions16,404 exemplars
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Col·laborador — 1,371 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2004) — Col·laborador — 757 exemplars
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (1987) — Col·laborador — 495 exemplars
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Col·laborador — 414 exemplars
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Col·laborador — 409 exemplars
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Col·laborador — 370 exemplars
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Col·laborador — 335 exemplars
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Col·laborador — 201 exemplars
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Col·laborador — 191 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1999 (1999) — Col·laborador — 184 exemplars
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Col·laborador — 142 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1990 (1990) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (1986) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1989 (1989) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
A Literary Christmas: Great Contemporary Christmas Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Meditations In Light (1989) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Night: A Literary Companion (2009) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology of American Farm Poems (1991) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Nom oficial
Doak, Meta Ann (born)
Data de naixement
1945-04-30
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
País (per posar en el mapa)
USA
Lloc de naixement
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Llocs de residència
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Educació
Hollins College (BA|English)
Hollins College (MA|English)
The Ellis School
Professions
poet
professor
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
literary critic (mostra-les totes 7)
painter
Relacions
Dillard, R. H. W. (husband|divorced)
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. (husband)
Smith, Lee (friend)
Organitzacions
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
International PEN
Poetry Society of America
Society of American Historians
NAACP
National Citizens for Public Libraries (mostra-les totes 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
Premis i 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) (mostra-les totes 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)

Membres

Converses

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

Ressenyes

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 | Hi ha 104 ressenyes més | 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.… (més)
 
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trauman | Hi ha 54 ressenyes més | Feb 6, 2024 |
Beautiful essays and encouragement on the writing process. Dillard is like an old friend.
 
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Aidan767 | Hi ha 54 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 104 ressenyes més | Jan 24, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
32
També de
35
Membres
19,774
Popularitat
#1,096
Valoració
4.2
Ressenyes
357
ISBN
239
Llengües
8
Preferit
118

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