Annie Dillard
Autor(a) de Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Phyllis Rose
Obras por Annie Dillard
Three By Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - An American Childhood - The Writing Life (1990) 649 exemplares
The French and Indian War in Pittsburgh: A Memior 2 exemplares
Annie Dillard 2 exemplares
Schedules 1 exemplar
Dillrd, Annie Archive 1 exemplar
Annie Dillard, 3 novels by 1 exemplar
How We Spend Our Days 1 exemplar
Annie Dillard on Fairhaven College 1 exemplar
Walden Pond and Thoreau 1 exemplar
Associated Works
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 377 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Seeing Beyond: Movies, Visions, and Values (Studies in the Film Series) (2001) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Doak, Meta Ann (born)
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-04-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Hollins College (BA|English)
Hollins College (MA|English)
The Ellis School - Ocupações
- poet
professor
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
literary critic (mostrar todos 7)
painter - Relações
- Dillard, R. H. W. (husband|divorced)
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. (husband)
Smith, Lee (friend) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
International PEN
Poetry Society of America
Society of American Historians
NAACP
National Citizens for Public Libraries (mostrar todos 15)
Phi Beta Kappa
Harper's Magazine (editor)
Western Washington University (scholar-in-residence)
Wesleyan University (professor)
Wesleyan Writers' Conference (chair)
American Heritage Dictionary (usage panelistl)
Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs
Partners in Health
The Virginia Woolfs - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Campion Award (1994)
Washington Governor's Award for Literature (1977)
Appalachian Gold Medallion ( [1989])
St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award (1989)
History Maker Award (Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania ∙ 1993)
Connecticut Governor's Arts Award (1993) (mostrar todos 14)
Milton Prize (1994)
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (1997)
Academy Award in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters ∙ 1998)
New York Public Library Literary Lion (1984)
Boston Public Library Literary Light (1990)
Middletown Commission on the Arts Award (1987)
Phi Beta Kappa
Bollingen Prize (1984) - Agente
- Timothy Seldes (Russell and Volkening)
Membros
Discussions
Annie Dillard em Non-Fiction Readers (Abril 2016)
Group Read- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Fevereiro 2014)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Also by
- 35
- Membros
- 19,774
- Popularidade
- #1,096
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 357
- ISBN
- 239
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 118