The Living

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

New York Times Book Review

An august celebration of human frenzy and endurance [and]...an invigorating, intricate first novel. Annie Dillard [shows a] tremendous gift for writing in a genuinely epic mode.

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.