Annie Dillard is the acclaimed author of nine books, including Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood,
and The Living. She lives in Middletown, CT.
Review
"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the tirals and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers,
it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague."
--Chicago Tribune
"A kind of spiritual Strunk & White, a small and brilliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer's
task...Dillard brings the same passion and connective intelligence to this narrative as she has to her other work."
-- Boston Globe
"For her book is...scattered with pearl. Each reader will be attracted to different bright parts...Gracefully
and simply told, these little stories illuminate the writing life...Her advice to writers is encouraging and invigorating."
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The Writing Life is a spare volume...that has the power and force of a detonating bomb...A book
bursting with metaphors and prose bristling with incident."
-- Detroit News
Submitted by Publisher, June, 2001
Summary
In this volume the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (BRD 1974), Holy the Firm (BRD 1977, 1978), and An American
Childhood (BRD 1987, 1988) discusses how she writes her books.
With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity,
and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers
deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.
