Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, at age 29. Without question, a desert island book. If there is a book I have enjoyed reading more, I cannot think of it. Add it to your list…or read it again. Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. Dillard's works have been compared to those by Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and John Donne. She cites Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Ernest Hemingway as a few of her all-time favorite authors. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard's journals served as a source for Pi