The first volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a novelist, poet, farmer, and
environmental writer and activist. He has published over fifty
books, including more than two dozen books of poetry, sixteen essay
collections, and eight 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 fifty
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, James Salter, Gina Berriault, and many
others. He has worked with Wendell Berry for more than forty years.
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