For those drawn to Wendell Berry's descriptions of the Appalachians and the importance of land in the residents' lives, Sharyn McCrumb is an excellent match. Both look at the clash...

Michael Malone and Wendell Berry's fiction examines the importance of family and community, drawing on sympathetic characters along with the physical landscape's significance in people's...

Although environmentalist authors Edward Abbey and Wendell Berry had some philosophical disagreements, both may interest readers looking for impassioned fiction and nonfiction positing...

Wallace Stegner and Wendell Berry link their characters' lives to the land and write beautifully about the natural world. Their leisurely paced, descriptive books adeptly capture the...

In lively prose, Wendell Berry and Fred Chappell capture the feel of the places and the inhabitants they write about. Their stories are rooted in family and community, and the individual's...

Wendell Berry and Sarah Orne Jewett both document lives that are changing. In their novels, present-day mixes easily with stories of past times, and this past indelibly marks the present....

Silas House writes lovingly of the land in the coal regions of the Appalachians. Family and home are at the center of his stories, with all the sorrows and delights that they bring....

Writing about her own 19th century and in historical novels set earlier, Willa Cather captures the same sense of community life as Wendell Berry. She eloquently depicts the landscape...

These authors' works have the appeal factors lyrical and spare, and they have the genres "literary fiction" and "psychological fiction"; and the subjects "rural life," "small town life,"...

These authors' works have the appeal factors persuasive, and they have the subjects "rural families," "farm life," and "rural life."