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Annie Dillard's book 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' won the Pulitzer Prize.

One of Annie Dillard's essays published in the magazine ends with the line, 'Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.'

Annie Dillard's memoir 'An American Childhood' is about her growing up in Pittsburgh.

The New York Times Magazine published three of Annie Dillard's early essays appearing for the first time in their current form.

Annie Dillard published 'The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New' in March 2016.

Fact: Annie Dillard, author of 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek', has three early, unpublished works.

Annie Dillard began publishing books in 1974.

Annie Dillard's book of poems 'Tickets for a Prayer Wheel' was followed by her nonfiction book 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'.

Fact: Japan's current population is roughly the same size as it was in 1989.

Fact: In Japan, there are two deaths for every one birth.

Fact: Japanese government projections state the country's population will drop to 87 million by 2070.

Fact: Tetsuo Sato will turn 107 on September 18, 2026.

Fact: Tetsuo Sato fought in the Battle of Imphal during World War II.

Fact: Japan’s population peaked at 128 million in 2008, according to government data.

Statement: Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has called the country's low birthrate a 'quiet emergency'.

Statement: Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten said women are overrepresented as centenarians because many men of that generation died in World War II and male survivors smoked and drank more.

Fact: Tetsuo Sato, aged 106, lives in the village of Osonogo in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

Fact: Women comprise 88 percent of Japan's centenarians.

Fact: Japan has 107,677 centenarians as of September 2026, an increase of nearly 8,000 from the previous year.

Fact: Japan's oldest woman is Fuyo Kishimoto (114) from Kyoto, and its oldest man is Hikaru Kato (112) from Kumamoto.