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WASHINGTONPOST (Matt Schudel) - Annie Dillard, Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ dies at 81 Wed Sep 16 15:47:04 2026

With the publication of her 1974 book, she was hailed as a 20th-century Thoreau, a visionary whose shimmering prose offered glimpses of the eternal.

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NYTIMES (Daniel Lewis) - Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 Wed Sep 16 14:10:13 2026

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

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