Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/em>, was published in 1974. It became a Book of the Month Club selection that year and received the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1975; she was only 29 years old.<\/p>\nShe has published collections of essays and of poetry, as well as an autobiography. Her most recent work is a novel, The Maytrees<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHappy birthday, Annie! Your prose has pulled back the veil to fill my life with color, awe, delight, and your penetrating vision has given me glimpses of wonders that inspire me to rejoice, and horrors that sharpen my yearning for grace. And you write with such verve and spirit and poetry and excellence. Oh, for more like you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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