An American Childhood

Name: An American Childhood
Author: Annie Dillard

by Annie Dillard

Autobiographical account of childhood in Pittsburgh and intellectual coming of age

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Annie Dillard

American essayist and naturalist whose Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the Pulitzer Prize for its intense, visionary attention to the natural world. The Writing Life is an unusually honest account of the writer's experience of writing. For the Time Being ranges across geology, Talmudic commentary, and the mystery of evil with fearless curiosity.

More by Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker CreekEssays combining natural observation, philosophy, and spirituality in narrative form
The Writing LifeMeditation on the craft and practice of writing and artistic creation
For the Time BeingEssays exploring faith, grief, and the experience of time and mortality
Teaching a Stone to TalkEssays on nature writing and the process of careful observation and listening