An American Childhood Based on Peter S. Hawkins' Review An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard, is a happy memoir of Annie's own life, a child of a well-to-do Pittsburgh family. Dillard remembers much of her childhood and doesn't hesitate to tell us a bit of it. Author Flannery O'Conner once said, "any novelist who could survive her childhood had enough to write about for a lifetime." This was most certainly the case for Dillard. A …showed first 75 words of 386 total…

…showed last 75 words of 386 total…to her feelings and frustrations, and like Holden Caulfield in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Annie Dillard lets the reader know how she feels about everything and everyone, no matter how that may be. An American Childhood is a great book that is guaranteed to entertain even the pickiest of readers. It is amazing how through her writing and her own memories, Annie Dillard can bring back so many childhood memories of our own.