
On the literary influence of Annie Dillard, perhaps the first author who felt like “mine”
I read with sorrow the news that American author and Pulitzer winner Annie Dillard died recently at age 81. She

I read with sorrow the news that American author and Pulitzer winner Annie Dillard died recently at age 81. She

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