Authors: Annie Dillard
The Abundance (27 page)
ANNIE DILLARD
has written twelve books, including in nonfiction
For the Time Being, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm,
and
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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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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
FOREWORD.
Copyright © 2016 by Geoff Dyer.
THE ABUNDANCE
. Copyright © 2016 by Annie Dillard. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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