The indispensable writings of our modern-day Thoreau, more relevant now than ever, in a special two-volume edition prepared in consultation with the author.
Wendell Berry (1934-2026) was 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 was the recipient
of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Book Critics Circle. He made his home with his wife, Tanya Berry,
in Henry County, Kentucky.
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.
“Decades before the Green New Deal made headlines, Wendell Berry
sounded the alarm about America’s environmental crisis. . . . More
than 40 years later, those observations are still timely and
pertinent. They are also persuasive, because they reflect a
common-sense approach rooted in experience, rather than partisan
views. . . . Essential reading for those who want to understand how
we arrived at this point in time, and how we can begin to shift our
standards, priorities, and habits.” —The Christian Science
Monitor
“Seeing his arc in one place highlights both his complexity and his
consistency. . . . Berry’s essays serve as documents of the
bewildering destruction in which our everyday lives involve us and
as a testament to those qualities in people and traditions that
resist the destruction.” —The Nation
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