Annie dillard biography current life
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Where Have You Gone, Annie Dillard?
Politics
Why the author has become so much less prolific over the past 17 years
By William Deresiewicz
The abundance, a selection from the work of one of the great, original voices in recent American letters, might just as easily be called The Absence.
Annie dillard biography current life
It speaks of absence—for nature’s profusion, in Annie Dillard, is everywhere the signage of the hidden god she seeks—and it also marks an absence: hers. Dillard’s first book appeared in 1974. Over the following 25 years, she published 10 more original volumes, including two that have achieved the status of modern classics, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a latter-day Walden, and The Writing Life, a “spiritual Strunk & White” (as one reviewer put it), and two more that deserve to, Holy the Firm, which might have been written in letters of flame, and Teaching a Stone to Talk, a jewel box of narrative meditations.
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