Berry is the first of four children born to John Berry, a lawyer and tobacco farmer in Henry County, and Virginia Berry. The families of both of his parents have farmed in Henry County for at least five generations. Berry attended secondary school at Millersburg Military Institute, then earned a B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky. In 1957, he completed his M.A. and married Tanya Amyx.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Nathan Coulter (1960)
A Place on Earth (1967)
The Memory of Old Jack (1974)
The Wild Birds (1986)
Remembering (1988)
A World Lost (1996)
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (1997)
Jayber Crow (2000)
That Distant Land (2002)
Hannah Coulter (2004)
Andy Catlett (2006)
A Place in Time (2012)
How It Went (2022)
Nathan Coulter (1960)
A Place on Earth (1967)
The Memory of Old Jack (1974)
The Wild Birds (1986)
Remembering (1988)
A World Lost (1996)
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (1997)
Jayber Crow (2000)
That Distant Land (2002)
Hannah Coulter (2004)
Andy Catlett (2006)
A Place in Time (2012)
How It Went (2022)
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November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three, A Poem (poems) (1963)
The Broken Ground (poems) (1964)
Openings (poems) (1968)
The Rise (poems) (1968)
Findings (poems) (1969)
Farming : A Handbook (poems) (1970)
The Country of Marriage (poems) (1973)
Horses (poems) (1975)
The Kentucky River (poems) (1975)
Sayings and Doings; And, an Eastward Look (poems) (1975)
There Is Singing Around Me (poems) (1976)
Clearing (1977)
Three Memorial Poems (poems) (1977)
The Gift of Gravity (poems) (1979)
The Wheel (poems) (1980)
A Part (poems) (1980)
The Salad (poems) (1980)
The Selected Poems (poems) (1985)
The Wild Rose (poems) (1986)
I Go from the Woods Into the Cleared Field (poems) (1987)
The Landscape of Harmony (poems) (1987)
Sabbaths (poems) (1987)
Traveling At Home (poems) (1989)
Fidelity (1992)
The Storm (poems) (1994)
Entries (poems) (1994)
Watch With Me (1994)
The Farm (poems) (1995)
Three On Community (poems) (1996) (with Carole Koda and Gary Snyder)
January, Nineteen Seventy-five (poems) (1998)
A Timbered Choir (poems) (1998)
Pattern of a Man (2001)
Given (poems) (2005)
Window Poems (poems) (2007)
The Mad Farmer (poems) (2008)
Leavings (poems) (2009)
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford (poems) (2011)
New Collected Poems (poems) (2012)
This Day (poems) (2013)
Terrapin (poems) (2014)
A Small Porch (poems) (2016)
The Peace of Wild Things (poems) (2018)
Another Day (poems) (2024)
The Broken Ground (poems) (1964)
Openings (poems) (1968)
The Rise (poems) (1968)
Findings (poems) (1969)
Farming : A Handbook (poems) (1970)
The Country of Marriage (poems) (1973)
Horses (poems) (1975)
The Kentucky River (poems) (1975)
Sayings and Doings; And, an Eastward Look (poems) (1975)
There Is Singing Around Me (poems) (1976)
Clearing (1977)
Three Memorial Poems (poems) (1977)
The Gift of Gravity (poems) (1979)
The Wheel (poems) (1980)
A Part (poems) (1980)
The Salad (poems) (1980)
The Selected Poems (poems) (1985)
The Wild Rose (poems) (1986)
I Go from the Woods Into the Cleared Field (poems) (1987)
The Landscape of Harmony (poems) (1987)
Sabbaths (poems) (1987)
Traveling At Home (poems) (1989)
Fidelity (1992)
The Storm (poems) (1994)
Entries (poems) (1994)
Watch With Me (1994)
The Farm (poems) (1995)
Three On Community (poems) (1996) (with Carole Koda and Gary Snyder)
January, Nineteen Seventy-five (poems) (1998)
A Timbered Choir (poems) (1998)
Pattern of a Man (2001)
Given (poems) (2005)
Window Poems (poems) (2007)
The Mad Farmer (poems) (2008)
Leavings (poems) (2009)
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford (poems) (2011)
New Collected Poems (poems) (2012)
This Day (poems) (2013)
Terrapin (poems) (2014)
A Small Porch (poems) (2016)
The Peace of Wild Things (poems) (2018)
Another Day (poems) (2024)
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Books containing stories by Wendell Berry
New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2009 (2009)
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Madison Smartt Bell
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