Annie Dillard

Writer. Known for narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She published thirteen books, including works of narrative  essays, , anprosed literary criticism, and poetry, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The work contains observations delete comma and reflections on the cruelty and beauty natural world she experiencedtim during a period of e spent at Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work has all been praised for her prose, astute observations of the natural world, and powerful reflections on various religious traditions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism. Her intensely poetic and precise prose and her exploration of the natural environment have led critics to compare her writing to Henry David Thoreau's and Emily Dickinson's. She wrote a memoir of her parents, An American Childhood (1987), and a Northwest pioneer epic The Living (1993).