Annie Dillard, Pulitzer prize-winning author of nonfiction and nature essays, dies aged 81
Summary
Annie Dillard, an author known for her book *Pilgrim at Tinker Creek*, died at 81 in Massachusetts. She won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1975 and wrote many other works about nature, life, and religion.Key Facts
- Annie Dillard died at age 81 at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
- She wrote *Pilgrim at Tinker Creek*, published in 1974, about the natural world near her home in Virginia.
- The book won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
- *Pilgrim at Tinker Creek* was included in a list of the 100 best nonfiction books by Modern Library in 1998.
- Dillard wrote poetry, essays, novels, and an autobiography called *An American Childhood*.
- Her 1982 essay *Total Eclipse* was named one of the 20th century’s 100 best essays by Joyce Carol Oates.
- She was married to biographer Robert D. Richardson for 32 years until his death in 2020 and had a daughter named Cody Rose.
- Dillard saw herself as a thinker about God and reality, not just a writer about nature.
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