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Born in August 5, 1934 / United States / English

Bibliography

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FICTION

  • Nathan Coulter: A Novel, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1960, revised edition, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1985.
  • A Place on Earth: A Novel, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1967, revised edition, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983, reprinted, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2001.
  • The Memory of Old Jack, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1974.
  • The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1986.
  • Remembering: A Novel, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1988.
  • Fidelity: Five Stories, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Watch with Me: And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, neé Quinch, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Two More Stories of the Port William Membership, Gnomon Press (Frankfort, KY), 1997.
  • Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership as Written by Himself, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2000.
  • That Distant Land: The Collected Stories of Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2002.
  • Three Short Novels (contains Nathan Coulter, Remembering, and A World Lost), Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2002.
  • Hannah Coulter: A Novel, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.

POETRY

  • November Twenty-six Nineteen Hundred Sixty-three, Braziller (New York, NY), 1964.
  • The Broken Ground, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1964.
  • Openings: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1968.
  • Findings, Prairie Press (Iowa City, IA), 1969.
  • Farming: A Handbook, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1970.
  • The Country of Marriage, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1973.
  • An Eastward Look (also see below), Sand Dollar Books (Berkeley, CA), 1974.
  • Reverdure: A Poem, Press at Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO), 1974.
  • Horses, Larkspur Press (Monterey, KY), 1975.
  • To What Listens, Best Cellar Press (Crete, NE), 1975.
  • Sayings and Doings (also see below), Gnomon Press (Frankfort, KY), 1975.
  • The Kentucky River: Two Poems, Larkspur Press (Monterey, KY), 1976.
  • There Is Singing around Me, Cold Mountain Press (Austin, TX), 1976.
  • Clearing, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1977.
  • Three Memorial Poems, Sand Dollar Books (Berkeley, CA), 1977.
  • The Gift of Gravity, illustrated by Timothy Engelland, Deerfield Press (Old Deerfield, MA), 1979.
  • A Part, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1980.
  • The Salad, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1980.
  • Wendell Berry Reading His Poems (sound recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1980.
  • The Wheel, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1982.
  • Collected Poems, 1957-1982, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1985.
  • Sabbaths, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1987.
  • Sayings and Doings [and] An Eastward Look, Gnomon Press (Frankfort, KY), 1990.
  • Entries: Poems, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1994.
  • The Farm, Larkspur Press (Monterey, KY), 1995.
  • The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 1998.
  • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 1998.
  • Given: New Poems, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2005.

NONFICTION

  • The Rise, University of Kentucky Library Press (Lexington, KY), 1968.
  • The Long-Legged House, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1969, portions reprinted as A Native Hill, introduction by Raymond D. Peterson, Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa, CA), 1976, original version reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.
  • The Hidden Wound, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1970, reprinted with new afterword, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1989.
  • (With Ralph Eugene Meatyard and A. Gassan) Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Gnomon Press (Frankfort, KY), 1970.
  • The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge, photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1971, revised and expanded edition published as The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
  • A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1972, reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2003.
  • Civilizing the Cumberland: A Commentary (bound with Mountain Passes of the Cumberland by James Lane Allen), King Library Press (Lexington, KY), 1972.
  • The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Sierra Club Books (San Francisco, CA), 1977.
  • Recollected Essays, 1965-1980, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1981.
  • The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays, Cultural and Agricultural, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1981.
  • Standing by Words: Essays, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983, reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2005.
  • (Editor, with Wes Jackson and Bruce Colman) Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1984.
  • Home Economics: Fourteen Essays, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1987.
  • The Landscape of Harmony, Five Seasons (Madley, Hereford, England), 1987.
  • Traveling at Home, wood engravings by John DePol, Bucknell University (Lewisberg, PA), 1988.
  • Harland Hubbard: Life and Work, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1990.
  • What Are People For? Essays, North Point Press (Berkeley, CA), 1990.
  • Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1993.
  • Another Turn of the Crank, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 1995.
  • A World Lost, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 1996.
  • (With William Kittredge, Susan Griffin, Montague, and Mark Dowie) Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape, photographs by David T. Hanson, Aperture (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Life Is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2000.
  • The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), 2002.
  • Citizenship Papers, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2003.
  • Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2004.
  • The Way of Ignorance, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2005.
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness, Shoemaker & Hoard (Emeryville, CA), 2005.

Also author of Standing on Earth, 1991. Contributor to books, including The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles, edited by James Lane Allen, Books for Libraries, 1972. Contributor to periodicals, including Nation, New World Writing, New Directions Annual, Prairie Schooner, Contact, Chelsea Review, Hudson Review, and Quarterly Review of Literature. Contributing editor, New Farm and Organic Gardening and Farming.