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This winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and listed by the New York Times as one of the best 100 non-fiction books of the century, gives timeless reflections on solitude, writing and faith amid the beautiful though sometimes brutal world of nature on the author's doorstep in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

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"""The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing...There is an ambition about her book that I like...It is the ambition to feel."" -- ""Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review"""

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Annie Dillard is the acclaimed author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Annie attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she now lives with her family. Nan McNamara has performed on stage, television, film, and behind the microphone in voice-overs for over twenty years. Her passion is to tell good stories--no matter what the medium. Originally from St. Paul, Nan received a BA cum laude in theater.

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