GEOFF DYER is the author of many books, including But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize) and Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence. He is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice, California.
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PRAISE FOR ANNIE DILLARD
“Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition. . . . Her prose . . . is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human.”
—Boston Globe
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—Kevin Barry
“[One of] those who first made me want to try writing essays and set the standard to reach for when I tried, even as their more abiding commitment to the form keeps me humble by comparison.”
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ALSO BY ANNIE DILLARD
General Nonfiction
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
FOR THE TIME BEING
Holy the Firm
The Writing Life
Memoir
An American Childhood
Fiction
The Living
The Maytrees
Journalism
Encounters with Chinese Writers
Theory
Living by Fiction
Poems
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
Mornings Like This
CREDITS
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