Hannah Coulter (27 page)

For my Chapter 21, “Okinawa,” the principle sources are E. B. Sledge,
With the Old Breed;
George Feifer,
The Battle of Okinawa;
Donald O. Dencker,
Love Company;
and Sóetsu Yanagi,
The Unknown Craftsman.

Tanya Berry listened sympathetically and critically to the chapters of the first draft as they were written, and she made the first typescript from my longhand. Tanya and Dave Charlton transcribed the much-edited typescript onto a computer disk, and suffered many further alterations and additions, all the while treating me and my book with wonderful kindness.

Don Wallis, yet once more, proved himself an illuminating critic and an indispensable friend.

Carol Berry, Mary Berry Smith, and Don Hall read the manuscript. Their kindness helped me, and the thought that they were reading my work made me more critical of it.

Trish Hoard and Jack Shoemaker, of Shoemaker & Hoard, gave me readings that encouraged me, changed my mind, and improved the book. Julie Wrinn, a conversable and exacting copy editor, did me many favors, large and small.

Chapter 20, “The Living,” was published in the
Temenos Academy Review,
number 6.

Author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including
Citizenship Papers,
Wendell Berry has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, Kentucky, for forty years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the T. S. Eliot Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, and the John Hay Award of the Orion Society.

Copyright © 2004 by Tanya Amyx Berry

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. This book is a work of fiction. Nothing is in it that has not been imagined.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berry, Wendell, 1934–
Hannah Coulter : a novel / Wendell Berry.

p. cm.

1. Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place)—Fiction.
2. Women—Kentucky—Fiction.
3. Kentucky—Fiction I. Title.

PS3552.E75H36 2004

813'.54—dc22 2004013121

 

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