Talk:Annie Dillard

message: "She quite the Catholic Church and Christianity"
I think that should be "quit".
Her page said she died tomorrow? It's 1/11/18, and it says she died on 1/12/18? There's no sourcing for this death and I can't find any proof with a simple search.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.66.30.73 (talk) 01:06, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's fake, as it would be in some media by now if true. Also, she appears to have no connection to Southern California. Her husband has a link to Key West, which is on the wrong side of the country. I removed what I judge to be vandalism by the user "2600:1004:b103:513f:a036:74e7:e96e:54d9".--Quisqualis (talk) 06:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
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message: Can anyone give a source for her birth name (Meta Annie Doak)?  I am compiling some more info for this entry, but have thusfar been unable to verify the "Meta" name using any print sources.  Thanks much!  
--amysayrawr 00:19, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
other facts
* wrote essays, poetry, memoirs, literary criticism
* carefull formulations, observations, metaphysical insights
* Tickets: poetry, first publication
* Pilgrim: inspired by Thoreau's Walden. Tinker Creek in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. D. lived there (observing nature, reading and writing)
[ more to be added later ]
some interlinking with american nature writers, John Muir and Thoreau especially, would be useful;
Any reason that I should not add a page about An American Childhood?--the authentic david christians (talk) 22:31, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone else find it funny that an article about an author is in need of a clean-up for grammar?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.76.68.46 (talk) 14:59, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: I have made structural changes to this article to improve readability. I retained all existing information, but in is some cases made minor wording changes. I added facts from An American Childhood. I hope people find the changes agreeable. 
Isegot 11:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structural Changes 

message: In Further Reading, I took out the Bedrock book. That book merely anthologizes something in Teaching a Stone to Talk. There's really no reason to list that, especially as the book which originally featured that essay is itself listed in the article.
128.138.169.236 (talk) 01:34, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
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message: The following opinion drawn from American Childhood suggests that Dillard's difference with the church was resolved by C.S. Lewis: 
"As an adolescent she quit attending church because of "hypocrisy." When she told her minister of her decision, he gave her a stack of books by C. S. Lewis, and that resolved her rebellion." Based on the text of page 228, I don't see the grounds for drawing this conclusion. I'm going to remove "that resolved her rebellion" and add her interpretation of C.S. Lewis. See below the passage from page 228 regarding C.S. Lewis: 
"If the all-powerful creator directs the world, then why all this suffering? Why did the innocents die in the camps, and why do they starve in the cities and farms? Addressing this question, I found thirty pages written thousands of years ago, and forty pages written in 1955. They offered a choice of fancy language saying, "Forget it," or serenely worded, logical-sounding answers that so strained credibility (pain is God's megaphone) that "Forget it" seemed in comparison a fine answer. I liked, however, C.S. Lewis's effort to defuse the question. The sum of human suffering we needn't worry about: There is plenty of suffering, but no one ever suffers the sum of it." 
The chapter ends with the assistant minister suggesting that she will return to the church, to which Dillard writes: "Humph, I thought, Pshaw." 
--Isegot 02:29, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverified Assertion 

message: This section may have been correct as of 2011. However, there is no mention of paintings for sale on her official website as of April 13, 2016. 
So, this should be removed or rewritten in the past tense. If the latter, I would not know how to cite a webpage that can no longer be retrieved. 
Thanks. 148.159.128.51 (talk) 13:29, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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