Annie Dillard
Autore di Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Sull'Autore
Annie Dillard was born Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1945. She received a B.A and an M.A. in English from Hollins College. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books including Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Holy the Firm, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Living, and Mornings Like mostra altro This: Found Poems. She won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She wrote an autobiography entitled An American Childhood. Her work also has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and Cosmopolitan. She taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Annie Dillard
Three By Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - An American Childhood - The Writing Life (1990) 651 copie
Annie Dillard 2 copie
Schedules 1 copia
Dillrd, Annie Archive 1 copia
Annie Dillard, 3 novels by 1 copia
How We Spend Our Days 1 copia
Walden Pond and Thoreau 1 copia
Opere correlate
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduzione — 380 copie
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Collaboratore — 133 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Seeing Beyond: Movies, Visions, and Values (Studies in the Film Series) (2001) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Dillard, Annie
- Nome legale
- Doak, Meta Ann (born)
- Data di nascita
- 1945-04-30
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Hollins College (BA|1967|MA|1968)
The Ellis School - Attività lavorative
- poet
professor
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
literary critic (mostra tutto 7)
painter - Relazioni
- Dillard, R. H. W. (husband|divorced)
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. (husband)
Smith, Lee (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Wesleyan University (professor)
International PEN
Poetry Society of America
Society of American Historians
NAACP
National Citizens for Public Libraries (mostra tutto 14)
Phi Beta Kappa
Harper's Magazine (editor)
Western Washington University (scholar-in-residence)
Wesleyan Writers' Conference (chair)
American Heritage Dictionary (usage panelistl)
Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs
Partners in Health
The Virginia Woolfs - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (1975)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
Bollingen Prize (1984)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999)
Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1998)
Campion Award (1994) (mostra tutto 19)
Milton Prize (1994)
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (1997)
New York Press Club Award for Excellence (1975)
New York Public Library Literary Lion (1984)
Boston Public Library Literary Light (1990)
Middletown Commission on the Arts Award (1987)
Washington Governor's Award for Literature (1977)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2000)
Connecticut Governor's Arts Award (1993)
History Maker Award (Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania ∙ 1993)
St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award (1989)
Appalachian Gold Medallion (1989)
Phi Beta Kappa (1966) - Agente
- Timothy Seldes (Russell and Volkening)
Utenti
Discussioni
Annie Dillard in Non-Fiction Readers (Aprile 2016)
Group Read- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Febbraio 2014)
Recensioni
Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 32
- Opere correlate
- 35
- Utenti
- 19,852
- Popolarità
- #1,089
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 359
- ISBN
- 239
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 118
The tale centers on three people, Maytree, Lou, and Daisy, ethical bohemians ideally suited to the improbable sandspit that is the fist of Cape Cod. They are unlike anyone I’ve ever encountered in a book, but they reminded me of some people I know—some of my favorite people. As for the plot, it’s about nothing much, other than love and mortality. In between, the unsolvable question, Does life have a point?
Heavy stuff, right? Dillard clothes it all in elliptical prose that made me read slowly, sometimes twice. She finds countless ways to express what she observes freshly. The book is spiced throughout with sage aphorisms, such as, “The tragedy of old age . . . is not that one is old but that one is young.”
Spoiler alert: all three main characters die. In fact, their deaths are described at length, almost clinically. But Dillard doesn’t do this morbidly. Instead, these scenes illustrate the theme of the book. Maytree, Lou, and Daisy question throughout whether they love—they seem hesitant to claim this word for their relation to each other. Their lives illustrate, though, that love isn’t something that is; love does.
This book often made me laugh out loud. At the same time, it is one of the saddest books I’ve read, as sad as life itself. Dillard gives it away on the second page: “Falling in love, like having a baby, rubs against the current of our lives: separation, loss, and death. That is the joy of them.”… (altro)