The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, whose ecstatic, exacting prose transformed the observation of nature into an inquiry into consciousness, faith and existence, has died aged 81. Annie Dillard, one of the most singular voices in postwar American literature, died on 15 September 2026 at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. SheContinue reading “Annie Dillard, 1945–2026: The Fierce Attention of a Life”
