Dillard, Annie

Collects three works by Annie Dillard, including "An American Childhood," an autobiography of her youth in Pittsburg during the 1950s; "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," in which she philosophizes on the positive and negative sides of nature while observing life near Virginia's Tinker Creek; and "The Writing Life," in which Dillard analyzes what the actual process of writing feels like.

A collection of poems with traditional themes, composed through a process of extracting and rearranging sentences from existing works.

An autobiography describing the author's childhood and life in Pittsburgh during the fifties.

Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains.

Dillard describes the working life of a writer. She probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, as she recounts what the actual process of writing feels like.

The story of Whatcom, Washington and its inhabitants during the nineteenth century.

Presents an extended meditation on the meaning of life by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard.