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Annie Dillard sent an unsolicited manuscript to Harper’s Magazine in 1973; it was included in the August issue of that year under the heading “Monster in a Mason Jar: The lethal liturgy of the praying mantis,” which, along with two other Harper’s articles, would appear as chapters in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974). The book received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction when Dillard was twenty-nine, and led one critic to call her “one of the foremost horror writers of…