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.
"A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration." - Time magazine
"This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of
this or any season. . . . A triumph." - Publishers Weekly
"Spirited and gale-force. . . . The best thing is her glee, a
pied-piperish glee at being in the world, which she invokes better
than anyone else." - The Guardian
"One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." -
Boston Globe
"With Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, we suddenly find ourselves in the
presence of an ecstatic and visionary genius. We are still there."
- Geoff Dyer
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