American · b. 1945
Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author celebrated for her luminous, philosophical nature writing, above all Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a contemplative classic of observation and wonder.
Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction at twenty-nine for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a year of close, rapturous observation of the natural world in Virginia’s Blue Ridge that became a classic of American nature writing.
Across essays, memoir, poetry, and fiction — including Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and The Writing Life — she has pursued questions of nature, perception, spirituality, and mortality in prose of remarkable intensity and precision. Her work fuses scientific curiosity with metaphysical wonder.
Dillard is admired as one of the finest prose stylists and most searching contemplative writers in modern American letters.
by Annie Dillard
Dillard spent a year at Tinker Creek in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, watching. The book is a record of that watching — insects, muskrats, water, light, death, and the theological question of what kind of God would make a world this brutal and this beautiful.
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