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 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 S. 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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