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DILLARD, Annie was born on April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Frank Doak and Gloria Lambert.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.
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(This is a collection of Annie Dillards work that was publ...)
This is a collection of Annie Dillards work that was published and then republished in special edition for Book of the Month Club. This edition has the artul soft cover that telss its story wrapping to the back cover and on spine. The book is an illustration of the clarity of imagery that Dillard can provide and for some a less sentimental Francis Bret Harte.
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( In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in...)
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.
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( Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--peo...)
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
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Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
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It’s been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle—and now, China. This informative narrative is full of fascinating people: Chinese people, mostly writers, who encounter American writers in various bizarre circumstances in both China and the U.S. There is a toasting scene at a Chinese banquet; a portrait of a bitter, flirtatious diplomat at a dance hall; a formal meeting with Chinese writers; a conversation with an American businessman in a hotel lobby; an evening with long-suffering Chinese intellectuals in their house; a scene in the Beijing foreigners’ compound with an excited European journalist; and a scene of unwarranted hilarity at the Beijing Library. In the U.S., there is Allen Ginsberg having a bewildering conversation in Disneyland with a Chinese journalist; there is the lovely and controversial writer Zhang Jie suiting abrupt mood changes to a variety of actions; and there is the fiercely spirited Jiange Zilong singing in a Connecticut dining room, eyes closed. These are real stories told with a warm and lively humor, with a keen eye for paradox, and with fresh insight into the human drama.
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Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" (Boston Globe) -- collects her favorite selections from her own writings in this compact volume. A perfect introduction to one of America's most acclaimed and bestselling authors.
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(In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearran...)
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. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
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SIGNED EDITION Factory Sealed - Shrinkwrapped Easton Press shrink wrapped and signed edition. Book comes with original COA shrink wrapped inside the book if normally sent from Easton Press. __________________________________________________________________________________ Book Description An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays -King of the Meadow' with a field of grasshoppers.
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Dillard, Annie [Harpe...
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The author takes one year to investigate the listening brook in Virginia His research is like Thoreau's experience in Walden somehow. And the author calls it pilgrimage. In one year, he observes and experiences plants, animals and weather and so on and finds out the mysteries of the nature goes and describes them in poetic language.
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DILLARD, Annie was born on April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Frank Doak and Gloria Lambert.
Bachelor, Hollins College, 1967. Master of Arts, Hollins College, 1968.
Contributing editor Harper's Magazine, New York City, 1974-1981, 83-85. Scholar-in-residence Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1975-1978. Distinguished visiting professor Wesleyan University, 1979-1983, adjunct professor, since 1983, writer-in-residence, 1987—1998, writer emeritus, since 1998, board directors Writers Conference, since 1984, chairman, since 1991.
Fellow Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Phi Beta Kappa orator Harvard-Radcliffe University, 1983. Member United States writers delegate University of California at Los Angeles United States.-Chinese Writers Conference, 1982.
Member United States cultural delegate to China, 1982. Board directors The New Press, Key West Writers Conference, Wesleyan Writers Conference, Key West Literary Seminars. Member usage panel American Heritage Dictionary.
(In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearran...)
( Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in...)
(It’s been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Cre...)
( In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in...)
( Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer...)
(The author takes one year to investigate the listening br...)
(This is a collection of Annie Dillards work that was publ...)
(SIGNED EDITION Factory Sealed - Shrinkwrapped Easton Pres...)
( Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year...)
( Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--peo...)
(Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by D...)
(Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, Annie [Harper Perenni...)
(A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular boo...)
(A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular boo...)
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(Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Mass Market Paperback - 1974)
(A MYSTICAL EXCURSION INTO THE NATURAL WORLD)
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Author (poems): Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, 1974, 3d edition, 2002, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974 (Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction 1975, Best Foreign Book Public in France 1990), Holy the Firm, 1978, Living by Fiction, 1982, Teaching a Stone to Talk, 1982, Encounters with Chinese Writers, 1984, An American Childhood, 1987 (National Book Critics award finalist 1987), The Writing Life, 1989 (English-speaking union Ambassador Book award 1990), The Living, 1992, The Annie Dillard Reader, 1994, Mornings Like This, 1995, For the Time Being, 1999 (Maurice Coindreau prize 2001). Editor: (with Robert Atwan) Best Essays, 1988. (with Cort Conley) Modern American Memoirs, 1995.
Member National Committee on United States-China Relations, since 1982, St. Mary's Soup Kitchen, Key West, Florida. Board directors Milton Center, Authors League Fund, Key West Literary Seminars, Wesleyan Writers Conference. Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Society of America Historians, Authors Guild, American Academy Arts and Letters, Key West Volleyball Association,Phi Beta Kappa.
Married R.H.W. Dillard, 1965 (divorced). Married Gary Clevidence, 1980 (divorced). 1 child, Cody Rose; stepchildren: Carin, Shelly.
Married Robert D. Richardson, Junior, 1988.