“What kind of book is this?” Annie Dillard asked 42 years ago in “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” It’s in the spirit of the questions Thoreau asks in the book to which “Pilgrim” is most often compared, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

President Barack Obama is set to award National Humanities Medals to nine people and one organization Thursday — and one of them will go to a part-time Key West resident, writer Annie Dillard. Dillard ...

MIDDLETOWN -- Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame inductee Annie Dillard is most known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." But Dillard, a Pittsburgh native, also shared ...

This collection gathers together many of Pulitzer-winner Dillard’s best-known writings, drawn from eight of her books, as well as one piece previously published in Harper’s Magazine. After witnessing ...

Here are some sentences to ponder about Annie Dillard. She may be the finest American essayist of our time. She wrote one of the five best memoirs I’ve ever read. She wrote one indisputable ...

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MacKenzie Scott's story as one of the world's most generous philanthropists did not begin with a boardroom strategy, a ...

Annie Dillard has a tendency to write the literary equivalent of an earworm. "Every day is a god," she observes, and it's the sort of phrase you'll find yourself thinking over and over again, as ...

A former prison counsellor discusses the abuse and torture of mentally ill inmates she suspected inside a Florida correctional institution—and the emotional price she paid for staying silent. Plus, ...