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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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2 works about Annie Dillard are indexed here. 1 held at OCPL →

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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. Place: Roanoke, VirginiaSearch 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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert BlySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1983, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1983, p. 6
  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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1995, p. 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 Wilkinson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Katie Letcher Lyle, Margaret Gibson, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Louis Rubin · Also mentions: Hamilton HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1998, p. 15 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 6, 1998, p. 3
  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. Place: Key West, Florida · Also named: Barack ObamaSearch the index · NEH: President Obama Awards 2014 National Humanities Medal (September 3, 2015) · Also: Butler Eagle

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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.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

✓ 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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UNC

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

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