Three by Annie Dillard

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.