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Vita - Biography. Stories - Uncollected Fiction. Uncollected Essays. Scholarly Work on Annie Dillard. He doesn't write what Sontag called "pathographies. Either the agent or the editors there gagged on all this praise and sent it back. Bob is 76 and has had 2 open-heart surgeries and 2 pacemakers. He wants to see this piece of work "out there," and requested I put it on the website, so sure.

Annie Dillard has been considered a major voice in American literature since she published Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in and won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Her reputation has increased steadily if bumpily since then. Dillard has written a novel, some essays, poetry, and a memoir; her most characteristic books, however, are imaginative non-fiction narratives-—witnessings or accounts, stories and speculations—- that resist classification. Her distinctive, and distinctively American, prose style has been widely recognized and openly imitated.

Her father, Frank Doak, worked for some years as a minor corporate executive, but his passions were for Dixieland jazz, for taking his boat down the Mississippi, for dancing, and above all for telling jokes. Frank Doak self-published a memoir, Something Like a Hoagie , in Dillard has written —in An American Childhood -- about him and about her spirited mother, Pam Lambert Doak, who loved dancing and had a sort of wild transgressive genius for practical joking.