Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She has also written a number of other nonfiction books, including Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982) and The Living (1992), as well as several collections of essays. In addition to her nonfiction work, Dillard has also published a novel, The Maytrees (2007).