Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writers.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a novelist, poet, farmer, and
environmental writer and activist. He earned an MA in English at
the University of Kentucky in 1957 and in 1958 joined Stanford
University's creative writing program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow,
studying under Stegner and with Edward Abbey, Larry McMurtry,
Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen, Robert Stone, and Ken Kesey. In 1961
he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to spend a year in Tuscany.
From 1962-64 he taught English at NYU before returning to the
University of Kentucky, where he taught creative writing from 1964
until 1977 and then again from 1987 to 1993. He has published over
50 books, including over 25 books of poetry, 16 essay collections,
and 8 novels. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal
by President Obama, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he received the Ivan
Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics
Circle. He has made his home with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Henry
County, Kentucky, for the last 50 years.
Jack Shoemaker is the Editorial Director of Counterpoint Press,
publishing the work of Gary Snyder, M.F.K. Fisher, Evan Connell,
Robert Aitken, Anne Lamott, Jane Vandenburgh, and many others. He
has worked with Wendell Berry for more than forty years.
“Wendell Berry gives us an intimate portrayal of the mind and
heart of rural America. His graceful prose is truthful and
eloquent. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain,
sober and serious—all this and at times he is so funny you
have to stop and roll on the floor.” —Bobbie Ann Mason
“This is the most complete—and the most powerful—vision of any
American writer in my time. The stories of the Port William
Membership are a delight, a goad, and a testament less to
what was than to what could be. They will leave no reader
unmoved and unchanged.” —Bill McKibben
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