Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1877)
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In her first book of poems, ''Tickets for a Prayer Wheel'' (1974), Dillard first articulated themes that she would later explore in other works of prose.{{Cite web |title=Books by Annie Dillard |url=http://www.anniedillard.com/books-annie-dillard.html |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Annie Dillard |archive-date=December 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222194921/http://www.anniedillard.com/books-annie-dillard.html |url-status=live }} |
In her first book of poems, ''Tickets for a Prayer Wheel'' (1974), Dillard first articulated themes that she would later explore in other works of prose.{{Cite web |title=Books by Annie Dillard |url=http://www.anniedillard.com/books-annie-dillard.html |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Annie Dillard |archive-date=December 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222194921/http://www.anniedillard.com/books-annie-dillard.html |url-status=live }} |
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Dillard's journals served as a source for ''Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'' (1974), a [[Creative nonfiction|nonfiction narrative]] about the natural world near her home in Roanoke, Virginia. Although the book contains named chapters, it is not (as some critics assumed) a collection of essays. Early chapters were published in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', ''Harpers'', and ''[[Sports Illustrated]].'' The book describes God by studying creation, leading one critic to call her "one of the foremost horror writers of the 20th Century." In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Eudora Welty]] said the work was "admirable writing" that reveals "a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled... [an] intensity of experience that she seems to live in order to declare," but "I honestly don't know what [Dillard] is talking about at... times."{{Cite web |last=Welty |first=Eudora |date=1974-03-24 |title=Meditation on Seeing |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-tinker.html |url-status=live |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419231429/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-tinker.html }} |
Dillard's journals served as a source for ''Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'' (1974), a [[Creative nonfiction|nonfiction narrative]] about the natural world near her home in Roanoke, Virginia. Although the book contains named chapters, it is not (as some critics assumed) a collection of essays. Early chapters were published in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', ''Harpers'', and ''[[Sports Illustrated]].'' The book describes God by studying creation, leading one critic to call her "one of the foremost horror writers of the 20th Century." In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Eudora Welty]] said the work was "admirable writing" that reveals "a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled... [an] intensity of experience that she seems to live in order to declare," but "I honestly don't know what [Dillard] is talking about at... times."{{Cite web |last=Welty |first=Eudora |date=1974-03-24 |title=Meditation on Seeing |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-tinker.html |url-status=live |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419231429/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-tinker.html }} |
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