**Study Guide: *An American Childhood* by Annie Dillard** --- ###
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*An American Childhood* is a memoir by Annie Dillard, published in 1987. It is a reflective and poetic narrative that explores Dillard's experiences growing up in...
Annie Dillard is an American writer who writes of growing up in Pittsburgh, PA in her memoir An American Childhood. She won a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction at the age of 29 for her seminal work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. That particular book proved...
Born into a middle class family in Pittsburgh in 1945, Dillard describes her childhood as primarily internal. She primarily related to the world as it concerned her, but in college she discovered an entirely new perspective on life. At Hollins...
Annie Dillard started to write Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the srping of 1973, a book detailing her explorations of Tinker Creek, a Virginia valley near Roanoke. The book documents her year in Tinker Creek, stalking wildlife and studying the flora...
Annie Dillard is an American writer born on April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her autobiography entitled An American Childhood (1987) thoroughly details her childhood during which she was heavily inspired by the creativity of her...
