Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose spare, searching prose changed how readers think about nature, faith and the work of writing, has died at 81. She died on Tuesday at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, her literary agent Rob McQuilkin confirmed.
Born Meta Ann Doak in Pittsburgh, Dillard was best known for 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek', the 1974 book that won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and established her as one of America's most distinctive literary voices.
