Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"In 1971 I wanted to try my hand at prose. My journals were full of facts that I used to write Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), a sustained nonfiction narrative about the fields, creeks, woods, and mountains near Roanoke, Virginia. Because I ''named'' its chapters, in the style of 19th-century narratives, many reviewers took it for a book of essays. The book attempted to describe the creator, if any, by studying creation, leading one writer to call me (wonderfully) "one of the foremost horror writers of the 20th Century."
--Annie Dillard New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. New paperback edition, Harper Collins, 2013.
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