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Annie Dillard: the Pulitzer winner who sat on a log and asked God the hard questions
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South Africa had Eugène Marais, who spent years in the Waterberg watching baboons and termites and wondering what it all meant. America had Annie Dillard. She won a Pulitzer at 28 for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, half of it written after hours in a public library. Then she ran from the fame. Dillard, who died on 15 September aged 81, rejected the “nature writer” label. Her real question was about God: why does a world so lavish with beauty devour itself so casually? The Economist’s obituary is a sma
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