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Annie Dillard

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American writer (born 1945)

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Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and nonfiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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2014National Humanities Medal
2000PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
1997Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
1988Western States Book Award
1985Guggenheim Fellowship
1984Bollingen Prize
1975Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

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Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and nonfiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Born 1945 · age 81
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