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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Before there was Bird by Bird, there was A Pilgrim A Tinker‘s Creek. Not exactly a formal guide to writing, this classic – and short – combination of memoir and nature study, is a masterful a 20th Century take on Walden by Henry David Thoreau, recommended by readers and writers.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration ...
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