European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Dillards Retreat by Robert Uno Fiey new Yak Elma toe Northwestern up at us United fog and gloom often to much a part of the Luda Cileu mountains and an emigre from Pittsburgh is trying to come v to terms once wife her soc can and anew Annie Duluard retreated then in the same year Tam triage to her College writing instructor Back in org Lalji and same year the won pulitzer prise for Hyorim at tint Over the att is during who Chine discovered the Price of Fame on include the wrote the re critically praised holy of Shell of the age of a confirmed she a for first Book was an intimate exploration o Man la a Virginia the second a aimed 1 mythical recollection of three Dart in an Bland in puget in a wooden room with one one a portrait of Dillard released by her publisher shows a Whit Young one that Helen Gailey Brown might for promo tonal and but the picture if ser hair u with Only Unta of blonde streaks the in a Square perhaps slightly awkward woman with an intelligence and warmth that do not completely conceal she could easily get lost among her Stu dents at Western Washington who u nine Yean her senior and she said watching to see if her interviewer was taking it taught me everything i poetry was her first she said aha spent Good Deal of time Reading in the Library leaving College and one after Reading a bad the decided to write one a her the chose the Roan once Valley and the universe and nature in and based her Book on a Dally journal she had been keeping to give me physical Rug kor it to he Tai Tarif fed at by Demohai i Ike sits write a Yew leg Amie to Tut Nia filial her yet the sweets to has a Nam a lot of successful  commit and it Hinkl understand you feel guilty you dont go so far As to say what you b no Good i cant say Pii Prim was a Lousy but people write to you and say they think youre w Good Ifa Tayou re As pure As the but its not Faay to myself trip a Busy try Success Bas not Henf to do with me la Snow remarkable that f could and write Well i was trained As a Success is absolutely the race is not to used struggling writers for years and Jvan and i know tots of them were at least As Good As it is All so random you feel maybe your Success is partly because you have Yellowhair and Beautiful she seemed that her Harper it had  her As a  its a very Busy it really she and recalled Bow after finishing College in 1961 she repeatedly poems to magazines and usually got them Back in the malt now those same Doggone Little magazines that hurried me Down write letters and say please Send them some thing i look around and see if i can find the same Pena they turned the poems Are the the exact same poems then i gel a letter Back airmail we Are delighted to accept Thil they kept it six months and then turned it Down because they never heard of now they want to use my name its a croaked the daughter of a Pittsburgh dil lard said she grew up in world of country girls that kind of her voice suggesting disdain for the life but she Utor stressed hut she had bad a Happy childhood to Hilgh encouraged by her parents and Leach she said she began writing poetry and then Carol led in a writing program at Youins in Stoa at the cod of her Sophomore Richard sent the first chapter an agent and was soon she said she was unprepared for the deluge of interviews and fan appointment As a contributing editor of Morgen Magazine based Only on the first Chap her entry to us last world of new York pub Lishing and the pulitzer for Long i  understand about every thing that was going it was All happening so my i didst know what to make of things i discovered i would be Down at the Creek and wonder if the phone was i had this dream i was with people anonymously and then someone would recognize Annie and the whole situation would i hated about the time that she was thrust into this she her marriage was breaking although she said she believed her writing Success had nothing to do with it after toe she decided to leave Al Oghda sad looked at a Sta Hertaf where to be cause us Mona huh and puget be she chose Aad accepted Ibe Job As scholar u residence at one of offered to her after the Book was a Blu  author Annie do i hate to i say to myself in a Lousy my Success has nothing to do with me its not remarkable that i could and write Well i f was trained As a when i came to the i knew also Likely nobody in the stale of Washington waa i was not wry grown up 1 had been living under my husbands and before that under my fathers can i was a Dott Elfid 1 still and when i came out scarcely know ing How to drive a and met i would talk to them and ask questions and they would never me a id have people Over for dinner and they would talk to each other and not talk to and the reason they  talk to me is that i had the damned pull Leer prize they didst know the first thing about they Only knew the last you can just die of loneliness with the pulitzer i was a and very few people realized that a stranger is a stranger she All that has she Sam he loved the especially puget Sotari Aad its and the people whom she badge sea to speaking of her Peers at the she they Are intellectual without being snobby about and said she was particularly unhappy with the new York literary world because of its concentration on when i went there i was used to talking about Haw Thorne and Melville Over the dinner Ibey liked to talk about their investments and making More Dillard said she was letting the earnings from her books accumulate in a new York Bank and was not in vesting i she moved from the Island about which die wrote in holy the firm and has bought a borne in the Bellingham this is my Home she she has lived for the past year and a half with an anthropology professor who is writing a Gary for Long periods at a she they go to a log Cabin hideaway without electricity on an Island in the sound reachable Only by mail boat twice both of her books Kave a spiritual and Dubard said that she is a a Hrutun wow takes her re reared a she said gave a Lor a while after High returned to lie Aad u la aug of Chyrrl lag to roman 1 hate to when it was suggested that perhaps like other authors she had a love hate relationship with she i think its she said she hoped to begin writing her tint in Reading a trying to figure out what Modem fiction regarding Dillard i never tie that and i hate the whole but in stuck with ican sit Down and what would i Ive got to working within an artistic Structure and artistic structures just dont come u you every Treyve Only came to me about four All in Allim i usually gel my ideas in and i Start writing in in the stars and stripes Poge 13