Annie Dillard
FILE - President Barack Obama appears with author Annie Dillard, recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal, during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 10, 2015.
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Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for her poetic explorations of nature and spirituality, has died at 81. Her literary agent, Rob McQuilkin, says Dillard died Tuesday of natural causes at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Dillard began her career in the mid-1970s. She wrote a wide range of books, including the acclaimed “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” which won the Pulitzer for nonfiction in 1975. She was celebrated for her profound reflections on human life and nature. Dillard taught at Wesleyan University for over 20 years before retiring in 2002. She was married three times and had one child.
