logo
Welcome, guest! ~ Login ~ Register 

Quick Search:

S9.com / Biographies /

Meta Annie Doak(Doak)

Portrait
Born: 1945 AD
Currently alive, at 62 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Authors

Edit


1945 - Born on the 30th of  April in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1974 - She wins the Pulitzer Prize for this essay collection, a record of the seasons in Virginia and meditations by a writer who describes herself as "a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts."

         - Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.

         - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

1977 - Holy The Firm ISBN.

1982 - Living By Fiction.

1982 - Teaching a Stone To Talk.

1984 - Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. In this volume of essays, Dillard often begins with an observation of the natural world, which she then proceeds to explore. The subjects include weasels, a total eclipse anything that will lead her in the direction of philosophical or metaphysical speculation. Underpinning this technique is a broad background in anthropology, biology, history, culture, and geography.

         - Encounters with Chinese Writers

1987 - An American Childhood I

1989 - She explores the complexities of literary creation, writing not for her fellow practitioners but for readers curious about the writer's habits and methods.

         - The Writing Life.

1992 - The Living.

1995 - Mornings Like This: Found Poems.

1999 Dillard meditates on the nature of religion and science and how they impinge on the individual. Dillard reports facts about nature while suffusing her first-person narrative with vivid metaphors and images.

         - For the Time Being.

2007 - The Maytrees: A Novel.






Edit

Page last updated: 1:27pm, 12th Apr '07

Related Books

An American Childhood
by Annie Dillard (Paperback - Sep 1, 1988)
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't...

Usually ships in 24 hours
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
by Annie Dillard (Paperback - Jun 1, 2007)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creekis the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death,...

Usually ships in 24 hours
The Maytrees: A Novel
by Annie Dillard (Paperback - Jun 1, 2008)
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty....

Usually ships in 24 hours
The Maytrees: A Novel
by Annie Dillard (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty....

Usually ships in 24 hours
The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard (Paperback - Sep 26, 1990)
Annie Dillard has spent a lot of time in remote, bare-bones shelters doing something she claims to hate: writing. Slender though it is,The Writing Liferichly conveys the torturous, tortuous, and in...

Usually ships in 24 hours
Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard (Paperback - Sep 1, 1988)
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself...

Usually ships in 24 hours

More Books