Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is a United States novelist, essayist, philosopher, poet, and farmer. His most well known book, The Unsettling of America, provides a classic critique of industrial agriculture (agribusiness), as contrasted with agrarianism.

Works

Fiction

• Nathan Coulter, 1960 novel
• A Place on Earth, 1967 revised 1983 novel
• The Memory of Old Jack, 1974 novel
• The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership, 1986
• Remembering, 1988 novel
• The Discovery of Kentucky, 1991 story
• Fidelity: Five Stories, 1992
• A Consent, 1993 story
• Watch with Me: And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch, 1994
• A World Lost, 1997 novel
• Two More Stories Of The Port William Membership, 1997
• Jayber Crow, 2000 novel
• Sonata At Payne Hollow, 2001 play
• Three Short Novels: Nathan Coulter; Remembering; A World Lost, 2002
• That Distant Land : The Collected Stories of Wendell Berry, 2004
• Hannah Coulter, 2004 novel

Nonfiction

• The Hidden Wound, 1970 essay
• The Long-Legged House, 1971 essays
• A Continuous Harmony : Essays Cultural and Agricultural, 1971 essays
• The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge, 1971 essay
• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, 1978 essays
• Recollected Essays, 1965-1980, 1981
• The Gift of Good Land; Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural, 1981
• Standing by Words, 1983 essays
• Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, 1984 editor with Wes Jackson and Bruce Colman
• Home Economics, 1987 essays
• What Are People For?, 1990 essays
• Descendants and Ancestors of Captain James W. Berry, 1990 with Laura Berry
• Standing on Earth, 1991 essays
• What can turn us from this deserted future... , 1991 broadside
• Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work, 1992 biography
• Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community : Eight Essays, 1993
• Another Turn of the Crank, 1995 essays
• Three On Community, 1996 essays, with Gary Snyder and Carole Koda
• Waste Land : Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape, 1997 with Mark Dowie and David T. Hanson
• Grace, Photographs of Rural America, 2000 with Gregory Spaid and Gene Logsdon, essay
• Life Is a Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition, 2001 essay
• In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World, 2001
• The Art Of The Commonplace The Agrarian Essays Of Wendell Berry, 2002 edited by Norman Wirzba
• Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership In An Age Of Terror, 2003 with David James Duncan essay
• Citizenship Papers, 2003 essays
• Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy, 2004 with James Baker Hall essay

Poetry

• November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three, 1964 poem
• The Broken Ground, 1964 poems
• Openings: Poems, 1968
• Findings, 1969 poems
• Farming: A Handbook, 1970 poems
• The Country of Marriage, 1973 poems
• Sayings & Doings, 1975 poems
• To What Listens, 1975 poems
• Horses, 1975 chapbook poem
• Kentucky River, Two Poems, 1976
• There is Singing Around Me, 1976 poems
• Clearing, 1977 poems
• Three Memorial Poems, 1977
• The Gift of Gravity, 1979 poems
• A Part, 1980 poems
• The Salad, 1980 chapbook poem
• The Wheel, 1982
• From the Distance, 1982 broadside
• Collected Poems 1957-1982, 1985
• The Wild Rose, 1986 broadside
• The Landscape of Harmony, 1987
• Sabbaths, 1987 poems
• I go from the woods into the cleared field, 1987 broadside poem
• Traveling at Home, 1989 poems
• Sayings & Doings and An Eastward Look, 1990 poems
• The Peace of Wild Things, 1991 poem
• Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, 1994 poem
• Entries: Poems, 1994
• Amish Economy, 1996 poem
• A Timbered Choir:The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997, 1998
• Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1998
• Sabbaths 2002, 2004 chapbook
• Given, 2005 poems