![]() ![]() ![]() Intimately connected with the specific physical setting of Pittsburgh, An American Childhood insists upon the formative power of landscape upon the people who live in it. The autobiography of her earliest years, An American Childhood traces Dillard’s developing sense of selfhood and independence in her childhood pursuits-baseball, insect- and rock collecting, drawing, poetry, and exploration-focusing on the roots of the artist who would eventually emerge. An autobiography set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s-60s, published in 1987.Ī portrait of Annie Dillard as a young girl, An American Childhood recreates family life and the culture of the American Midwest.Įvents in History at the Time of the Autobiographyīorn Meta Ann Doak in Pittsburgh in 1945 to well-to-do parents, Annie Dillard grew to become America’s most famous theologian of nature, a well-known essayist, poet, novelist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize at the age of thirty. ![]()
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