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Annie Dillard

Writer Annie Dillard was among the prominent writers and artists who made Hillsborough their home in the 1990s, according to a 2001 Greensboro News & Record report that named her with Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Doug Marlette and Michael Malone.

Source: Greensboro News & Record: Writers in residence in Hillsborough (October 13, 2001)

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Observations of an accidental farmer--and a mindful reader

Kavros, Harry · 2024 · Paul Dry Books

Harry Kavros's 2024 collection of essays and anecdotes about taking up farm life near Hillsborough, from the landscape to keeping chickens and other animals, alongside reflections on the South and on the writers who shaped his reading: Thoreau, Emerson, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard and Frederick Law Olmsted. Sections run from an introduction through 'The landscape', 'Chickens and other beasts' and 'The South' to an epilogue and appendix. First Paul Dry Books edition, Philadelphia.

✓ Held at OCPL · 814.54 KAVROS UNC NC State

Carolina quarterly records, 1948-2004.

Carolina quarterly · 1948

'Carolina quarterly', the student literary magazine at Chapel Hill, left these files covering 1948 to 2004, about 1,600 items in 4.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40145. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are represented, along with literature publishing in the southern states, college student periodicals in North Carolina, and the university Publications Board that oversaw the magazine.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Annie Dillard wins the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, drawn from her private writings about the surroundings of her home in Roanoke, Virginia. This was years before she lived in Hillsborough.Search the index · Annie Dillard: Curriculum vitae
  2. Annie Dillard reads at UNC during a two-week campus visit Dillard spent two weeks in Chapel Hill in March 1983 as a preliminary event of the student-run Fine Arts Festival, giving a poetry reading on March 16 and leading afternoon seminars. The festival's organizer later said she was shocked by the size of the audiences for Dillard and Robert Bly.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1983, page 4
  3. Annie Dillard is UNC's Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence Dillard spent a week at UNC in the English department's Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence program, meeting creative writing students and giving a free public reading in Memorial Hall on February 1. The Daily Tar Heel reported a full house.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1995, page 3
  4. Annie Dillard joins the Rubin writers panel at the North Carolina Literary Festival At the North Carolina Literary Festival at UNC, Dillard sat on a panel of writers who had studied under Louis Rubin, with Lee Smith, Katie Letcher Lyle, Margaret Gibson, Sylvia Wilkinson and Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, in Hamilton Hall. People: Lee Smith, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Sylvia WilkinsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1998, page 15
  5. Annie Dillard receives the National Humanities Medal President Barack Obama presented Dillard with the 2014 National Humanities Medal at a White House ceremony for her reflections on human life and nature. The Associated Press identified her then as Annie Dillard of Key West, Florida.Search the index · Butler Eagle (Associated Press): Annie Dillard, Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ dies at 81

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  • Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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