Description: A collection of author-curated pieces that celebrates the essayist's career and offers insight into her establishment of the "novelized nonfiction" form.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"A valedictory collection." - New York Times Book Review
"Dillard is triumphantly awake, and these essays are magnificent and dramatic, illuminating and inspirational. Read them; they brim with abundance." - The Guardian (UK)
"A heady selection... What a joy it is to take a walk with Dillard.... With stirring language and powerful intellect, Dillard shows us what it means to be alive." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"What a gift.... Annie Dillard writes better sentences than just about anyone alive." - Christian Science Monitor
"A solid introduction to a writer blessed with an all-consuming consciousness steeped in both faith and science." - Kirkus Reviews