Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, nato il 5 agosto 1934, è un autore e attivista ambientale altamente rispettato. Ha apportato significativi contributi nei campi della agricoltura, della critica culturale e dell'advocacy ambientale, ed è ampiamente considerato una figura di spicco in questi settori. Berry è nato e cresciuto nella contea di Henry, nel Kentucky, dove risiede tuttora in una fattoria. La sua profonda connessione con la terra e la comunità è riflessa in gran parte della sua scrittura, ed è spesso definito il "profeta dell'America rurale" dalla critica.

Berry è uno scrittore prolifico, con un corpus di opere che include numerosi romanzi, racconti, poesie ed saggi. La sua scrittura esplora una vasta gamma di argomenti, dal mondo naturale e relazioni umane a questioni culturali e l'importanza della comunità. Negli anni, ha lasciato un ricco tesoro di scritti che hanno ispirato e interessato generazioni di lettori. Il suo talento e i contributi sono stati riconosciuti con numerosi premi, tra cui la Medaglia Nazionale Umanistica, la Jefferson Lectureship e una membership nel Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Oltre al suo lavoro come scrittore, Berry è anche un fervente sostenitore dell'agricoltura sostenibile e della tutela ambientale. È stato un critico vocale dell'agricoltura industriale e dei suoi negativi impatti sull'ambiente e sulle comunità rurali. Attraverso la sua scrittura e l'attivismo, Berry è stato fondamentale nel sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica sull'importanza di preservare la terra e promuovere pratiche agricole sostenibili. Il suo lavoro ha avuto un impatto significativo sul movimento ambientalista e continua a ispirare e influenzare altri a intraprendere azioni per proteggere il pianeta.

Nel 2015, Berry è stato introdotto nella Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, diventando il primo scrittore vivente a ricevere questo onore. Questo riconoscimento è un testimone della sua eredità duratura come scrittore e dei suoi contributi alla letteratura e all'advocacy ambientale. L'opera di Berry continuerà ad ispirare e influenzare le generazioni a venire, e il suo posto come uno dei più importanti e influenti scrittori d'America è garantito.
Port William Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Nathan Coulter 1960
2 The Wild Birds 1986
3 Remembering 1988
4 A World Lost 1996
5 Two More Stories of the Port William Membership 1997
6 Jayber Crow 2000
7 That Distant Land 2002
8 Hannah Coulter 2004
9 Andy Catlett 2006
10 A Place in Time 2013
11 Marce Catlett 2025
Port William Membership Books
# Titolo Anno
1 A Place on Earth 1966
2 The Memory of Old Jack 1974
3 How It Went 2022
New Patriotism Books (with Richard Nelson, with Terry Tempest Williams)
# Titolo Anno
1 In the Presence of Fear 2001
2 Patriotism and the American Land ( By: Richard Nelson) 2002
3 The Open Space of Democracy (By: Terry Tempest Williams) 2004
4 Citizens Dissent 2006
New Patriotism Series Books
# Titolo Anno
1 In the Presence of Fear 2001
2 Patriotism and the American Land 2002
3 Citizens Dissent 2006
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 To know the dark 1989
2 Stand By Me 2008
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Discovery Of Kentucky 1991
2 How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet 1992
3 Whitefoot 2008
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 Broken Ground 1964
2 November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three 1964
3 Openings 1968
4 The rise 1968
5 Findings 1969
6 Farming, a Hand Book 1970
7 The Country of Marriage 1973
8 Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look 1975
9 Horses 1975
10 Kentucky River 1975
11 Clearing 1977
12 The Salad 1980
13 The Wheel 1982
14 A Part 1983
15 The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 1985
16 The wild rose 1986
17 I go from the woods into the cleared field 1987
18 Sabbaths 1987
19 The Landscape Of Harmony 1987
20 Traveling at Home 1989
21 Fidelity 1992
22 Watch With Me 1994
23 Entries 1994
24 Three on Community 1996
25 A Timbered Choir 1998
26 The Selected Poems 1998
27 The Gift of Gravity 2003
28 Given 2005
29 Window Poems 2007
30 The Mad Farmer 2008
31 Leavings 2009
32 The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford 2011
33 New Collected Poems 2012
34 This Day 2013
35 Terrapin 2014
36 A Small Porch 2016
37 The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry 2017
38 The Peace of Wild Things 2018
39 The Farm 2018
40 Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows 2019
41 Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023 2024
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 The Long-Legged House 1966
2 The Hidden Wound 1970
3 The Unforeseen Wilderness 1971
4 A Continuous Harmony 1972
5 The Agricultural Crisis 1977
6 The Unsettling of America 1977
7 The Gift of Good Land 1981
8 Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 1981
9 Standing by Words 1982
10 Preserving wildness 1986
11 Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer 1987
12 Home Economics 1987
13 From the Heartlands 1988
14 Harlan Hubbard 1990
15 What Are People For? 1990
16 Standing on Earth 1991
17 Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community 1993
18 Another Turn of the Crank 1995
19 Life is a Miracle 2000
20 The Art of the Commonplace 2002
21 Citizenship Papers 2003
22 The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays 2005
23 Blessed are the Peacemakers 2005
24 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
25 Bringing it to the Table 2009
26 Imagination in Place 2010
27 What Matters? 2010
28 It All Turns on Affection 2012
29 Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder 2014
30 Our Only World 2015
31 Roots to the Earth 2016
32 A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson 2017
33 The Art of Loading Brush 2019
34 The World-Ending Fire 2019
35 The City and the Farm Crisis 2019
36 What I Stand On 2019
37 Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 2019
38 Essays, 1993-2017 2019
39 Think Little 2019
40 The Need to Be Whole 2022
Literary Conversations Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 1994
2 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins) 1994
3 Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus) 1996
4 Listening for God, Vol. 2 1996
5 Listening for God, Vol. 3 2000
6 Listening for God, Vol. 3 (With: Tillie Olsen, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins) 2000
7 Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark) 2002
8 Listening For God, Vol. 4 2002
Culture of the Land Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Strachan Donnelley, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings) 1970
2 Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics (By: Norman Wirzba, Vandana Shiva, Pramod Parajuli, Pankaj Jain, A. Whitney Sanford, Todd Levasseur, Mark H. Dixon, Ragan Sutterfield, Maximilian Abouleish-Boes, Yigal Deutscher, Leonor Hurtado, Tristan Reader, Eston Pembamoyo, Michael Lemons, Terrol Johnson, Jagannath Adhikari, Anna Peterson, Raymond F. Person) 1970
3 Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford) 1970
4 Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack R. Baker) 1970
5 Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro) 1970
6 The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir) 1972
7 The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva) 1991
8 Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva) 2000
9 From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus) 2006
10 Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (By: Tom Shippey, Jonathan Evans, John Elder, Matthew Dickerson) 2006
11 Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle) 2007
12 Wendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters) 2007
13 The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon) 2007
14 The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson, Bill Vitek) 2008
15 Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus) 2008
16 Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering by Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege) 2008
17 Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis (By: David L. O'Hara, Matthew Dickerson) 2008
18 Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba, L. Roger Owens, Joel Shuman) 2009
19 Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Constance L. Falk) 2010
20 The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson) 2010
21 The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis) 2011
22 The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger) 2011
23 Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Laura Sayre, Sean Clark) 2011
24 Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva, A. Whitney Sanford) 2011
25 The Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva) 2014
26 Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento) 2016
Wendell Berry Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Late Harvest 1991
2 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 1994
3 Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith 1994
4 Listening for God, Vol. 2 1996
5 Simpler Living, Compassionate Life 1999
6 Listening for God, Vol. 3 2000
7 Listening For God, Vol. 4 2002
8 The Portable Sixties Reader 2003
9 O Taste and See: Food Poems 2003
10 Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction 2007
11 Hope Beneath Our Feet 2010
12 Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth 2015
13 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 2012
14 The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 2016
15 Letters to a Young Farmer 2017
16 The Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World 2019
17 A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia 2019
18 Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together 2021