American · b. 1945
Annie Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction with "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," a meditation on nature and spirituality rooted in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. The American author writes essays that combine close observation of the natural world with theological and philosophical inquiry. Her prose achieves something rare: genuine wonder without sentimentality. Dillard's work on craft, "The Writing Life," has influenced generations of nonfiction writers.