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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a narrative non-fiction book by Annie Dillard. It was published in 1974, though chapters from the book appeared in magazines including Harper's and The Atlantic before its release in book form. The book takes place over the period of one year and was derived from Dillard's journals, which she kept daily for several years in the 1970s while living in the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia; in them, she recorded and reflected upon her daily walks around Tinker Creek, the stream near her home. Dillard wrote her master's thesis on Thoreau's famous naturalist memoir Walden, a work which Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is both evidently inspired by and often likened to. However, despite glowing critical comparisons to Thoreau, Dillard herself resisted the label of "nature writer." Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and was a critical and commercial success.
