Annie Dillard (née Doak, born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won...
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.