Annie Dillard

University of North Carolina at Asheville D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections Annie Dillard (b. 1945) Southern Appalachian Writers Collection M2005.05.01-08

Title	Annie Dillard
Creator	Southern Highlands Research Center
Alt. Creator	D. H. Ramsey Library
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/southern_appalachian_writers/dillard_annie/dillard_annie.htm
Subject Keyword	Annie Dillard ; Southern Appalachian Writers ; Appalachia
Subject LCSH	Dillard, Annie, 1945 - American literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History and criticism American literature -- Appalachian Mountains -- History and criticism American essays Appalachians (People) in literature Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel
Description	The collection contains a letter of correspondence and anecdotal information on the writer. These materials were gathered as part of an exhibition of Southern Appalachian Writers held at UNCA in the early 1980's and sponsored by D. H. Ramsey Library and the Southern Highlands Research Center.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor	Annette Hatley
Date	2005-08-23
Type	Collection ; text ;
Format	1 folder ; text ;
Source	M2005.05.1-8
Language	English
Relation	The Heritage of Western North Carolina, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Coverage	1900's - present ; Virginia ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Some materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for assistance from Special Collections staff.
Donor	240
Acquisition	2004-03-
Citation	Annie Dillard in Southern Appalachian Writers Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by	Special Collections staff, 2005
Last update	2008-09-03
Statement on writing
Biography	Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Annie Dillard has written poetry, fiction, essays, and (most notably) longer works of nonfiction. She attained a Masters in English from Hollins College near Roanoke, Virginia in 1968 and it was in a nearby rural area that she began working on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, for which she would receive the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. The majority of her literary output has continued in the narrative nonfiction vein, with occasional publications in the field of poetry and fiction, most recently The Maytrees. She remains a professor emeritus at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Bibliography	*BOOKS BY*
1974	Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.
1977	Holy the Firm. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
1982	Living by Fiction. New York: Harper and Row, 1982. Teaching a Stone to Talk. New York: Harper and row, 1982.
1984	Encounters with Chinese Writers. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1984.
1987	An American Childhood. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
1989	The Writing Life. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
1992	The Living. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
1994	The Annie Dillard Reader. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
1995	Mornings Like This: Found Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
1999	For the Time Being. New York: Knopf, 1999.
2007	The Maytrees. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
	*BOOKS EDITED BY*
1988	The Best American Essays 1988. Annie Dillard and Robert Atwan, eds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
1996	Modern American Memoirs. Annie Dillard and Cort Conley, eds. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.