Born April 30, 1945 as Meta Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she attended the all-girls Hollins College in Virginia where as a sophomore she married her writing professor, the poet R. H. W. Dillard.
She won the Pulitzer Prize (non-fiction) in 1975 with her first book of prose, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which is an extended meditation on her observations of the natural world. Some have called it a work of mysticism or theology. This combination of observations on nature and philosophical explorations is also present in several of her other books, including For the Time Being and Holy the Firm.
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A site maintained by Dillard herself, provides contact information as well as complete bibliographic information and a curriculum vitae.
Offers a bibliography, biographical timeline, and comments by Dillard on other authors.
Sample article from past issue of EarthLight Magazine; includes selections from Dillard's books.
A visual representation mapping out Annie Dillard’s relation to other major authors.
Recording of a commentary written and read by Dillard on the unimaginable number of lives claimed by the 2004 Asian tsunami.
(January 06, 2005)
A site maintained by Dillard herself, provides contact information as well as complete bibliographic information and a curriculum vitae.
Offers a bibliography, biographical timeline, and comments by Dillard on other authors.
A visual representation mapping out Annie Dillard’s relation to other major authors.
Sample article from past issue of EarthLight Magazine; includes selections from Dillard's books.
Recording of a commentary written and read by Dillard on the unimaginable number of lives claimed by the 2004 Asian tsunami.
(January 06, 2005)
