When Annie Dillard Met James Kilgo

September 25, 2026 · 1 min read

When James Kilgo published Deep Enough for Ivorybills in 1988, reviewers compared it to Annie Dillard’s 1974 nature memoir Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard herself saw the kinship. In the afterword to a book she edited, Modern American Memoirs, she recommended Kilgo’s book. Ivorybills also appears on “The Annie Dillard Log,” a long (and fascinating) Read more...

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Daniel Procházka

I found Kilgo interesting mainly because of the honesty with which he writes about hunting and nature at the same time. I wonder if Dillard mentioned in that afterword any particular passage from Ivorybills that got her. I definitely want to read it.

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