The Annie Dillard Reader

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers a collection of her specially chosen works, reflecting her distinctive and passionate view of the world, including the entire text of Holy the Firm. Reprint.

"A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great writers, she is fresh, jarring, passionately dedicated to her subject." 

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Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living *and The Maytrees*. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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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.

Résumé

"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace." – The New Yorker

"A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great writers, she is fresh, jarring, passionately dedicated to her subject."  — Threepenny Review

From one of America's most beloved writers, a collection of her own work - from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and The Living - now in paperback. 

A lovely introduction to the prolific Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning oeuvre, this sampler demonstrates Dillard's wide breadth of writing from the most minute observations to profound meditations on God in everyday life.