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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
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 paperback
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- a nonfiction narrative, not a collection of essays; each section is a chapter.

New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1st edition
Holy The Firm paperback
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.

Holy The Firm
1st edition
Living By Fiction
Living by Fiction -- unlicensed literary theory

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

Teaching a Stone to Talk

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
Encounters with Chinese Writers -- jolly journalism

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

An American Childhood
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
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
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
Mornings Like This -- a kind of remade found poetry

HarperCollins, 1995.

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

Knopf, 1999.

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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

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

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