![]() ![]() ![]() She says: “In college I learned how to learn from other people. ![]() It was so popular that it helped usher in the memoir craze.ĭillard went to college, and ended up marrying her writing professor. She wrote about growing up in Pittsburgh in her autobiography, An American Childhood (1987). She says, “I opened books like jars.” One of her very favorites was The Field Book of Ponds and Streams (1930) by Ann Haven Morgan. That book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), won the Pulitzer Prize, when Annie Dillard was just 29 years old.ĭillard was the daughter of an oil company executive and read voraciously as a child. She decided she had enough for a book and at the very end, she was writing for 15 to 16 hours a day. Eventually, she wrote so much she filled 20 volumes of journals. ![]() She’d write about everything she saw, like animals and birds, and even her reflections on theology and literature. In 1970, she began keeping journals of her daily walks around Tinker Creek, by her home outside the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It’s the birthday of American nonfiction writer and novelist Annie Dillard born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1945). ![]()
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