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Who was Annie Dillard?

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Annie Dillard (1945–2026) was an American writer best known for her meditative essays on the natural world, particularly her Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974). Her other books include the essay collections Holy the Firm (1977) and Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982) and the memoir An American Childhood (1987).