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Wendell Berry

USA  (1934 - )
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About Wendell Berry
Berry is the first of four children born to John Berry, a lawyer and tobacco farmer in Henry County, and Virginia Berry. The families of both of his parents have farmed in Henry County for at least five generations. Berry attended secondary school at Millersburg Military Institute, then earned a B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky. In 1957, he completed his M.A. and married Tanya Amyx.
 
Novels
 
Omnibus
Three Short Novels
 
Collections
November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three, A PoemThe Broken GroundOpeningsFindings
Farming : A HandbookThe Country of MarriageHorsesSayings and Doings; And, an Eastward Look
There Is Singing Around MeThree Memorial PoemsClearingThe Gift of Gravity
The WheelA PartThe Selected PoemsSabbaths
Traveling At HomeFidelity: Five StoriesThe StormEntries
Watch With MeThe FarmThree On CommunityA Timbered Choir
Pattern of a Man: And Other StoriesGivenWindow PoemsThe Mad Farmer
LeavingsThe Poetry of William Carlos Williams of RutherfordNew Collected Poems
 
Novellas
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World
 
Short Stories
The Discovery of KentuckyHow Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet
 
Non fiction
The Long-legged House (1969)
The Hidden Wound (1970)
The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (1971)
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural (1973)
The Agricultural Crisis: A Crisis of Culture (1977)
The Unsettling of America (1977)
Standing By Words (1980)
Recollected Essays 1965 1980 (1981)
The Gift of Good Land (1981)
Meeting the Expectations of the Land (1985) (with Wes Jackson)
Preserving Wildness (1986)
Home Economics (1987)
Another Turn of the Crank (1988)
What Are People For (1990)
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work (1990)
Standing On Earth: Selected Essays (1991)
Late Harvest: Rural American Writing (1992) (with Edward Abbey, Carolyn Chute, Annie Dillard, William Gass, Garrison Keillor, Bobbie Ann Mason and Wallace Stegner)
Newcastle Today (1993)
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community (1993)
A Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South from the Morris Museum of Art (1999)
Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World (2001)
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (2002)
Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror: Security, Morality,and Leadership in an age of terror (2003)
Citizenship Papers (2004)
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy (2004)
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings About Love, Compassion and Forgiveness (2005)
The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays (2005)
A Sacred Trust: Ecology and Spiritual Vision (2006)
Conversations with Wendell Berry: Literary Conversations (2007)
Bringing It to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food (2009)
Imagination in Place (2010)
What Matters? (2010)
It All Turns on Affection (2012)
The Long-legged HouseThe Hidden WoundThe Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River GorgeA Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
The Agricultural Crisis: A Crisis of CultureThe Unsettling of AmericaStanding By WordsRecollected Essays 1965 1980
The Gift of Good LandMeeting the Expectations of the LandHome EconomicsAnother Turn of the Crank
What Are People ForHarlan Hubbard: Life and WorkStanding On Earth: Selected EssaysLate Harvest: Rural American Writing
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & CommunityA Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South from the Morris Museum of ArtLife Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern SuperstitionIn the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell BerryCitizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror: Security, Morality,and Leadership in an age of terrorCitizenship PapersTobacco Harvest: An Elegy
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings About Love, Compassion and ForgivenessThe Way of Ignorance: And Other EssaysConversations with Wendell Berry: Literary ConversationsBringing It to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
Imagination in PlaceWhat Matters?It All Turns on Affection
 
Wendell Berry recommends
Living At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
Living At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream (2000)
Gene Logsdon
"Gene Logsdon is the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have."



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