The Writing Life.

DILLARD, Annie.

Item Number: 1738

New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

First edition of Dillard’s collection of essays. Octavo, original brown cloth. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author, “For Bob, as it says and/ really is- love, Annie”. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

American author Annie Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The Writing Life "is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague" (Chicago Tribune). It is "[a] kind of spiritual Strunk & White, a small and brilliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer's task...Dillard brings the same passion and connective intelligence to this narrative as she has to her other work" (Boston Globe).