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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel — poems
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1974. New York: Bantam, 1975. New York: Harper Colophon, 1986. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- a nonfiction narrative, not a collection of essays; each section is a chapter.

New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.


1st edition
Holy the Firm -- a nonfiction narrative

New York: Harper and Row, 1977. New York: Bantam, 1978. New York: Harper Colophon, 1984, 1988. Latest text: Harper Perennial, 1998 or 99.


1st edition
Living by Fiction -- unlicensed literary theory

New York: Harper and Row, 1982. New York: Harper Colophon, 1983, 1988. Paris?

Teaching a Stone to Talk -- my one and only collection of essays New York: Harper and Row, 1982. New York: Harper Colophon, 1983, 1988. Tokyo, 1993. Paris and Berlin sometime in nineties.

Encounters with Chinese Writers -- jolly journalism

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1984, 1985.

An American Childhood -- a memoir about parents, the world of science, and consciousness

New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Harper Colophon, 1988. Tokyo, 1989. Paris, 1990.

The Writing Life -- an embarrassing nonfiction narrative fixed somewhat and republished by Harper Perennial 1998.

New York: Harper and Row, 1989. Harper Perennial, 1988. Paris, 1996. Tokyo, 1997. Paris: 2008
Selected by Quality Paperbooks and by the Writer's Book Club.

The Living -- a novel

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Harper Perennial, 1993. Latest text, Harper Perennial, 1999. Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1995. Rome, 1994. Tokyo, 1994. Berlin, 1995. etc.

Mornings Like This -- a kind of remade found poetry

HarperCollins, 1995.

For the Time Being -- a nonfiction something-or-other, mostly narrative.

Knopf, 1999.

The Annie Dillard Reader

HarperCollins, 1994, 1995.
Selected the entries and rewrote lots. Use this for latest (short) texts. especially "The Living," the story.

Best American Essays of 1988 -- Ed. with Robert Atwan, and intro. by me.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Modern American Memoirs (1996, ed. with Cort Conley)
The Maytrees book cover The Maytrees, New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Part appeared previously in Harper's. Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award, 2008.

 

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