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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings

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Main Author:	Dillard, Annie
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperPerennial, 1998.
Edition:	1st Perennial classics ed.
Series:	Perennial classics
Subjects:	Nature.
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Summary:	A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings
Physical Description:	288 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	0060953020 : PAP
Author Notes:	Annie Dillard was born Annie Doak in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1945. She received a B.A and an M.A. in English from Hollins College. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books including Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Holy the Firm, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Living, and Mornings Like This: Found Poems. She won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She wrote an autobiography entitled An American Childhood. Her work also has appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and Cosmopolitan. She taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University. (Bowker Author Biography)