Annie Dillard was born in Pittsburgh in 1945. Annie wrote Death of a Moth in 1976 and it accomplished getting published in Harper’s magazine. She starts her story by telling us she lives on northern Puget Sound, in Washington State with her gold cat named Small. Her other pet is a spider, who lives in her bathroom on a six-inch cluster of webs. The spider’s web is in a corner behind the toilet and under it there are over 15 dead creatures that the spider has devoured. She then tells us about when she went to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It was in the summer and she went there by herself to camp. She then tells this to the readers “I had hauled myself and gear up there to read, among other things, James Ramsey Ullman’s The Day on Fire,
