Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for her poetic explorations of nature and spirituality, has died at 81.

Writer Annie Dillard has died at 81. She wrote books characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature, including 1974's Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She died Tuesday at ...

Annie Dillard, acclaimed author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, died at 81 in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul, and somehow, my dog.

Unemployed at the end of my 20s and in search of a new identity after stepping away from a draining career as a sports writer ...

It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, published when Dillard was 28, skyrocketed her to become one of the most prominent nonfiction writers of her generation ...

Ms. Dillard was awarded the 1975 Pulitzer for general nonfiction for "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," and became one of the ...

Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for her contemplative writings on nature, has died. She was 81. Dillard died on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at her home in South Wellfleet, ...

With the publication of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1974, Dillard, just 28, was recognised as a major new voice in American letters.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil. Annie Dillard in 1974, the year she published ...

The American author wrote everything from poetry to nonfiction to novels. Her books include The Maytrees and Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.