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Annie Dillard

Born

in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

April 30, 1945

Website

http://www.anniedillard.com/

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Annie Dillard (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 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 84,829 ratings · 9,383 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.09 avg rating — 26,211 ratings — published 1974 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writing Life 3.98 avg rating — 16,705 ratings — published 1989 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Childhood 3.91 avg rating — 9,685 ratings — published 1987 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters 4.15 avg rating — 6,114 ratings — published 1982 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maytrees 3.60 avg rating — 6,327 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holy the Firm 4.20 avg rating — 4,849 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Time Being 4.14 avg rating — 4,017 ratings — published 1999 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Living 3.84 avg rating — 3,076 ratings — published 1992 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New 4.02 avg rating — 1,993 ratings — published 2016 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living by Fiction 3.95 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 1983 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

tags: life, living

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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.5%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

23 votes, 16.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

16 votes, 11.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 9.8%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.1%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.7%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.6%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

143 total votes

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