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Annie Dillard

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The Resume

    (April 30, 1945- )
    Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Birth name is Meta Ann Doak
    Novelist and essayist
    Best known books are 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' (1974) and 'Teaching a Stone to Talk' (1982)
    Other books include 'Holy the Firm' (1977), 'An American Childhood' (1987), 'The Writing Life' (1989), 'Mornings Like This' (1995), 'For the Time Being' (1999) and 'The Maytrees' (2007)
    Won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Why she might be annoying:

    She married her creative writing professor.
    She said: 'I quit the Catholic Church and Christianity; I stay near Christianity and Hasidism.'
    She hasn't published an original narrative work - fiction or nonfiction - in over a decade.
    When she published 'The Abundance' in 2016, the Atlantic reviewed the book as follows: 'The subtitle, 'Narrative Essays Old and New,' is false advertising; there are no new pieces here. The most recent essay in the book, which is also the only one not included in a previous volume, is 11 years old.'
    She admitted to being overwhelmed by finding success as a writer so early.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She paints as a hobby.
    From 1980, she taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University.
    'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' made Random House's survey of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th-century.
    She cites Graham Greene, George Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway as her favorite authors.
    She met her third husband after sending him a fan letter about his book on Henry David Thoreau (they would remain married for over thirty years).

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying