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	Bellingham Review: Annie Dillard Award
		Annie Dillard is best known for her nature-themed writing.
		Dillard obtained a Master of Arts in English at Hollins College in Virginia.
		Dillard continues to write and is now an adjunct professor of English and a writer-in-residence at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~bhreview/anniedillard.htm (430 words)

	Annie Dillard Biography
		Annie Dillard was born in 1945, and is now forty-nine and living and teaching in Connecticut (for perspective, Tinker Creek was written in 1974, when she was twenty-nine).
		Annie is the oldest of three daughters, born to affluent parents.
		Annie's writing Tinker Creek was indirectly influenced by a near fatal attack of pneumonia which she was stricken with in 1971.
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~sparks/dillard/bio.htm (893 words)

	THE ECOTHEOLOGY OF ANNIE DILLARD: A STUDY IN AMBIVALENCE
		Dillard considers everyone from burn victims to stunt pilots, wanders everywhere from Virginia creeks to arctic ice floes, from the Galapagos Islands to Puget Sound.
		If the 1978 remarks betrayed Dillard's reluctance to be categorized as an ecological, theological, or ecotheological writer, her literary output since has guaranteed that she is not perceived as concerned only with the God of creation, the phenomena of nature, and the human place in the biosphere.
		Although Dillard is a good distance from the ecological vision propounded by ecofeminists, deep ecologists, and a number of environmental ethicists, she holds subtle and not-so-subtle views that should be reckoned with.
	www.crosscurrents.org /dillard.htm (6722 words)

	CWHF-Annie Dillard
		Annie Dillard was born in Pittsburgh to Frank and Pam Doak and writes professionally under the name of her first husband.
		Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1975, Dillard has proved a prolific writer of essays, poetry, memoirs, literary criticism, and fiction, who is respected for her elegant narrative style in books such as Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (1982) and An American Childhood (1987).
		The Annie Dillard Reader, a collection of her best known narratives, uncollected essays, and several new pieces was published by Harper in 1994.
	www.cwhf.org /hall/dillard/dillard.htm (321 words)

	Annie Dillard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dillard is a stronger witness than she is an analyst, so this book's great accomplishment is its power of observation, not explanation.
		Annie Dillard's platinum-blond hair, piercing blue eyes, wind-rouged cheeks, and perfectly proportioned, wide wide smile are strikingly beautiful even from a block away.
		Though frustrating to the reporters of the world, Dillard's reticence regarding her personal life and beliefs may be a valuable gift to them and to the rest of her readers as well.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/06/24/ANNIE_DILLARD.html (1740 words)

	Rutgers Writing Program - Teacher Resources - 101 - More Sample Assignments - Annie Dillard
		Indeed, upon first reading Dillard's piece, one might be tempted to conclude that it's little more than the recitation of a series of unrelated statistics and the posing of a series of unanswered questions.
		Dillard's readers must work with her, making sense of the statistics she presents, answering the questions she poses.
		Both Annie Dillard's essay and Tim O'Brien's story suggest that we cannot understand the worlds in which we live by merely looking at facts; facts are less important than our ‘angles of vision' in helping us to understand how to live and how to function in the world.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wp/teachers/101/more_sample_assignments/sa_dillardex.html (1230 words)

	Annie Dillard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annie Dillard (born 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American author.
		After nearly dying from pneumonia, Dillard began a diary, which formed the basis of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
		The Ecotheology of Annie Dillard: A Study in Ambivalence
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annie_Dillard (287 words)

	Annie Dillard Revisted
		In "An Expedition to the Pole" her fellow parishioners' prideful behavior and obviousness to the mystery of the "unencompassed light," the source of all true religion, are compared to equally prideful polar explorers (herself included) who encounter the light made manifest in the strangely spaceless, timeless terrain of the earth's extremities.
		One vow surpassed in importance all the rest, as Dillard informs us: "Foremost in her vow was this, that she would remember the vow itself." The girl, of course, is Annie Dillard; we recognize her indefatigableness.
		In another unusual analogy, Dillard compares what modernist fiction has accomplished to training a dog to fetch: it is very difficult to train it not to look at the hand with which one points and to look instead at that at which one points.
	www.mrbauld.com /dillardmeta.html (2563 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Annie Dillard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But in fact, Annie Dillard wrote the book while she was still a student at Hollins College, and she was only 29 when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
		Dillard is a pilgrim of words as well as a pilgrim of strange natural terrains -- she meanders through language with a strong faith that her destination will prove the journey necessary.
		The Seattle Times reports on a lecture Dillard gave in 1996 in which she asserted that the women of the Northwest are as dull as flannel.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=529 (466 words)

	Writing is Seeing in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek investigates the feeling of wonderment regarding oneself and that self in relation to nature.
		Throughout the book, Dillard continually rely on this active role of her eyes not only to render a scene but to also bring the life in that scene to the forefront.
		Although the descriptions are specific and informative, illuminating Dillard's motive, the descriptions are punctuated with passages that directly state the purpose of her writing.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/courses/nonfiction/dillard/nguyen11.html (429 words)

	'For The Time Being' by Annie Dillard
		Dillard’s work since “Pilgrim” has tended to favor the bizarre, with the notable exception of “An American Childhood,” the Pittsburgh-based memoir that brought her a new following.
		Dillard says he was such a compelling presence that even Henry Clay Frick was his friend, a highly dubious claim since Frick was an old man who died before Teilhard began the work that made him famous.
		Dillard wants numbers; she has prepared lists of dead and living, amounts of dust in the air, names and types of birth defects, the dates that oddly shaped clouds were seen.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990328review210.asp (481 words)

	ANNIE DILLARD
		Annie Dillard was born in 1945, the oldest of three daughters, to affluent parents.
		Dillard became increasingly obsessed with her writings, spending 15 to 16 hours a day on her journal, cloistered away from the world outside.
		Dillard spents time developing a contrast between what she calls "living in necessity" versus "living in choice." She wants us to appreciate that the weasel has a different "tape" than we do.
	www.sheftman.com /cab1a/dillard/index.html (1109 words)

	Annie Dillard
		Dillard’s most recent work, For the Time Being (1999), is a weaving of statistics, observation of the natural world and theological philosophy which seeks to address the questions of cruelty and suffering.
		Dillard’s writings have also been compared to that of romantics such as William Wordsworth and Gerard Manly Hopkins for her use of the physical world as a way to understand the nature of a divine spirit.
		Dillard would later adopt this system of approaching the divine by way of the ordinary on her writing, which often uses meditative focus on an item like a grain of sand or a passing cloud to ponder the nature of God or mankind.
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/PoetryProject/anniedillard.htm (984 words)

	Amazon.com: The Maytrees: A Novel: Books: Annie Dillard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In short, simple sentences, Dillard calls on her erudition as a naturalist and her grace as poet to create an enthralling story of marriage—particular and universal, larky and monumental.
		Annie Dillard's books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event, the business of eons and galaxies, however persistently we mistake its local manifestations for mere dust, mere sea, mere self, mere thought.
		Dillard has always been fascinated by time -- by the fact that existence is charged with it, saturated with it, borne along by it into a future that makes the span of any life less than negligible.
	www.amazon.com /Maytrees-Novel-Annie-Dillard/dp/0061239534 (1313 words)

	Tete a tete: Lunch with Annie Dillard by Malcolm Lawrence
		Annie Dillard is not surrounded by her own award-winning writing; she is surrounded by everyone else’s.
		Dillard’s first marriage was to Richard Dillard, ten years her senior, while she was a sophomore at Hollins College in Virginia, who gave her "enormous help" with her writing.
		Dillard said she was tempted to write travel pieces, because many people were willing to pay her to go to "wonderful places" and write about them.
	towerofbabel.com /splashingheart/teteatete/anniedillard (905 words)

	Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Midstream
		Dillard is indeed what her headmistress once despaired of: "a child of the twentieth century." The lament, however, should be taken as a compliment.
		But Dillard is marked for good by the recklessness of his setting out, by the power of a book to go to one’s head, and by her father’s having confused leaving Pittsburgh with living.
		Later on Dillard catches that case of opposition, but it turns out that church is part of what she feels called to reject.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=873 (2009 words)

	Essay Info :: Annie Dillard : The Chase
		Annie Dillard was excited about the man catching her when any other kid would have been scared.
		Annie Dillard after claimed that if the man had cut their heads off right then, she would have died happy.
		The way Annie Dillard keeps the reader on their feet always guessing is amazing.
	www.essayinfo.com /sample/essay/281 (484 words)

	BookPage Interview
		ulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has been called a latter-day Thoreau, a mystic, a naturalist and a superior stylist of a difficult form of non-fiction, the familiar essay.
		Dillard admits that at this point in her life she had grown exceedingly tired of "the sound of my own voice," and wanted to try something entirely new.
		I spoke with Annie Dillard recently by phone at her home in Middletown, Conn., to hear what she had to say about this new chapter in her writing life.
	www.bookpage.com /BPinterviews/dillard492.html (955 words)

	Annie Dillard as an Infant Puppy
		Each day, Dillard goes to the same creek, but she sees and feels the place anew each time, ever exploring, ever discovering, ever surprised and amazed at what she finds.
		Dillard explains that her enjoyment of the backyard, a place that would probably grow prosaic for most of us, results from her relentless pursuit of innocence.
		"Innocence," Dillard tells us, "is not the prerogative of infants and puppies," and I can't help but imagine her walking out to Tinker Creek on a crisp Spring morning, basking in the sun, and spending blissful hours playing peek-a-boo and chasing her own tail.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/courses/nonfiction/dillard/goodman11.html (354 words)

	uksearch.com : Arts: Literature: Authors: D: Dillard, Annie
		Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction - A yearly writing competition reflecting the work and style of Annie Dillard.
		The Ecotheology of Annie Dillard: A Study in Ambivalence - By Pamela A. Smith; an article in Cross Currents, the journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.
		The Mysticism of Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - By Sandra Stahlman Elliott, 5/94.
	www.uksearch.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2fArts%2fLiterature%2fAuthors%2fD%2fDillard%2c_Annie (225 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Nature girl
		Dillard, born Annie Doak in 1945 in Pittsburgh, was merely a result of the eccentric bloodlines she was born from.
		Dillard herself had a Salingeresque childhood studying her own pee under a microscope and reading Augustine's "Confessions." As a teen, her vices were cigarettes (she got kicked out of school for smoking) and drag racing (a practice that led to a date in juvenile court).
		He was also a connoisseur of horror films and likely responsible for Dillard's monster-movie view of nature, such as "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek's" bloodcurdlingly poetic descriptions of a frog being sucked dry by a water bug, as well as her meditations on the fatal sex life of the male praying mantis.
	www.salon.com /bc/1999/03/09bc.html (642 words)

	The New Humanities Reader - Link-O-Mat - Annie Dillard
		Annie Dillard, poet, essayist, novelist, and writing teacher, won a Pulitzer Prize for her book of naturalist reflections, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1973), when she was just 29 years old.
		In this, her first book, Dillard describes the life she elected to live in a remote part of the Blue Ridge Mountains after she had survived a near fatal bout of pneumonia.
		Nature Girl: A Discussion of Annie Dillard's Career: this article by David Bowman of Salon.com provides an overview of Dillard's publishing career and a discussion of the major influences on her work.
	www.newhum.com /for_students/link_o_mat/dillard.html (762 words)

	Annie Dillard and the Fire of God
		Annie Dillard’s work proposes that suffering is a chief characteristic of the contemporary mystic way.
		Dillard’s first two prose works, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper and Row, 1974) and Holy the Firm (Harper and Row, 1977), are reflections on the natural environment and on the qualities of human life engendered by living close to and listening to the natural order.
		Dillard’s seeing career, which is both receptive and highly conscious, is to be considered part of the tradition of seers whose mode of life she evokes:
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1683 (2124 words)

	The Mysticism of Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
		Dillard feels that we give children the wrong idea in regards to the nature of reality -- and muses that perhaps stuffed teddy bears should come with little stuffed lice, to paint a true picture of the way things are.
		Annie is able to actively seek out a relationship with the Divine by exploring and understanding each and every aspect of nature that she comes across.
		Annie Dillard grapples with age-old questions with the knowledge and energy of a 20th century thinker.
	sandra.stahlman.com /dillard.html (4725 words)

	NPR : Annie Dillard's Tale of Bohemian Love by the Sea
		Annie Dillard's new novel was once 1,200 pages, but she shortened it to just 216 by focusing solely on the central love story.
		For Lou Bigelow and her husband, Toby Maytree — the couple at the heart of Annie Dillard's new novel, The Maytrees — Provincetown is the perfect place to paint, write poetry and raise a family after World War II.
		The foregoing is excerpted from The Maytrees by Annie Dillard.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=12241185 (1237 words)

	Annie Dillard Biography and Summary
		Annie Dillard, a contemporary nature writer of major significance, combines the study of nature with readings in theology, philosophy, and the sciences.
		Annie Dillard--the eldest of three daughters of Frank and Pam Doak--grew up in a world of country clubs, debutante parties, and private girls' schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both describe the flights of the flocks of birds the see, incorporating their feelings about the experience into their observations.
	www.bookrags.com /Annie_Dillard (438 words)

	Article-Three by Annie Dillard- The Writing Life, An American Childhood, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
		In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God.
		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.
		Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_three_by_annie_dilla-0060920645.htm (1522 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Writing Life: Books: Annie Dillard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Annie Dillard effectively captures the struggles of writing for the public, of trying to share a vision or communicate ideas through the medium of language.
		Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, for me, was like having a relaxing conversation with a friend about the pains and joys of writing.
		Annie Dillard uses very cute metaphors and word choice to convey her relationship with writing, but the whole thing fails to ring true.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Writing-Life-Annie-Dillard/dp/0060919884 (1364 words)

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