ANNIE DILLARD is a narrative nonfiction writer, poet, novelist and critic. She has published over ten works, including An American Childhood (1987), Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982), The Living (1992), For the Time Being (2000) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976). Michael Collier is Poet Laureate of Maryland, Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and Director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference.
"She loves the country below. Like Emerson, she sees the virulence
in nature as well as the beauty that entrances her. Annie Dillard
is a poet."--Washington Post Book World
"She sees the world with a penetrating eye and presents it to us in
a refreshing new dimension. Masterful."--Smithsonian
"She is a fine wayfarer, one who travels light, reflective and
alert to the shrines and holy places."--New York Times Book
Review
"She loves the country below. Like Emerson, she sees the virulence
in nature as well as the beauty that entrances her. Annie Dillard
is a poet."--Washington Post Book World
"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it
with enduring grace."--The New Yorker
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