Pilgram at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard is a non-ficiton narrative first published in 1974. The narrator speaks from a first person point of view, detailing her own explorations along Tinker Creek, contemplating on nature and life.
- The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1975
- Tinker Creek is outside Roanoke in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
- Annie Dillard used her personal journal as inspiration
- Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Reading and Discussion Questions (The Victorian Web)
- A Guide to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Holt, Rhinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature)
- Meditation on Seeing by Eudora Welty (New York Times)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quotes (goodreads) 87 quotes from the book
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Response Journal (TeachersFirst)
- A Visual Approach to Syntactical and Image Patternsin Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Essay & Images by Anna Maria Johnson (Numero Cinq Magazine)
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