Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard is a poet, essayist, nonfiction writer, and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975.

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  2. Total Eclipse

    “Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

    Annie Dillard
    A total solar eclipse in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, on March 20, 2015
    Jon Olav Nesvold / Stringer / Getty

  4. Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Wherever there is stillness there is the still small voice, nature’s old song and dance … A meditation on silence and other matters.

    Annie Dillard
    A grainy, hazy photograph of the Black Sea and Abrau Peninsula
    Nanna Heitmann / Magnum

  7. A Field of Silence

    On a Saturday morning in early September, she climbed the barnyard fence and strolled through the pasture. Stillness. The silence gathered and struck her and this is what she saw.

    Annie Dillard
    A black and white photograph of thick, tall, grasses in a field
    The Atlantic