Annie Dillard, Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ dies at 81
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- Guardian International·15h agoAnnie Dillard, Pulitzer prize-winning author of nonfiction and nature essays, dies aged 81
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, published when Dillard was 28, skyrocketed her to become one of the most prominent nonfiction writers of her generation Annie Dillard, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, died aged 81 at her home in South Wellfleet,…
Read at Guardian International → - Washington Post US·15h agoAnnie Dillard, Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ dies at 81
With the publication of her 1974 book, she was hailed as a 20th-century Thoreau, a visionary whose shimmering prose offered glimpses of the eternal.
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