Port William Resources

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Port William Family Tree
from Shoemaker and Hoard edition of Hannah Coulter

Map of Port William
from Shoemaker and Hoard edition of Hannah Coulter

Fiction, in publication order

• Nathan Coulter: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 1960 | Revised North Point, 1985)
  
• A Place on Earth: A Novel (Harcourt Brace, 1967 | Revised North Point, 1983 | Revised Counterpoint, 2001)
  
• The Memory of Old Jack (Harcourt Brace, 1974 | Revised Counterpoint, 1999)
  
• The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (North Point Press, 1986)
  
• Remembering: A Novel (North Point Press, 1988)
  
• The Discovery of Kentucky (Gnomon, 1991)
  
• Fidelity: Five Stories (Pantheon, 1992)
  
• A Consent (Larspur, 1993)
  
• Watch With Me: And Six Others Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch (Pantheon, 1994)
  
• A World Lost: A Novel (Counterpoint, 1996)
  
• Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (Gnomon, 1997)
  
• Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, as Written by Himself (Counterpoint, 2000)
  
• That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2002) (a collection of stories previously published in The Wild Birds, Fidelity, and Watch With Me)
  
• Hannah Coulter: A Novel (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004)
  
• Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006)
  
• Andy Catlett: Early Education (Larkspur, 2010)
  
• A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Counterpoint, 2013)
  
• The Art of Loading Brush (Counterpoint, 2017) (a mix of fiction, essays, and poetry)
  
• One of Us (Larkspur, 2020)
  
• A Rainbow (Larkspur, 2022)
  
• How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership (Counterpoint, 2022)
  
• The Stackpole Legend (Larkspur, 2024)
  
• Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story (Counterpoint, 2025)
  

Notes

• Berry revised his first three Port William novels in order to correct inconsistencies with the later novels.
• Larkspur Press is a fine edition press in Monterey, KY. These books typically are small, less than fifty pages, and contain a single short story.

Library of America Port William Collection

1. Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II) (2018)
2. Port William Novels & Stories (The Postwar Years) (2024)
3. The LOA site refers to a third volume in the series but I cannot find any more information on when it will be published.

Fiction, in chronological order (incomplete, ongoing project)
A note on stories not explicitly dated in the text: Since some of Mr. Berry’s stories are framed as recollections, I will date them according to the narrator’s point of view. For example, “Pray Without Ceasing” is dated from Andy Catlett’s point of view as he learns the story of Ben Feltner’s death, which happened many years before. Since memory is a major theme of the stories, this has the advantage of framing them as memories of a certain person at a certain time with a certain point of view, not bare narrative chronology.

• “A Consent” (Watch With Me) 1908
  
• “Watch with Me” (Watch With Me) 1916
  
• “A Half-Pint of Old Darling” (Watch With Me) 1920
  
• “The Lost Bet” (Watch With Me) 1929
  
• Nathan Coulter 1930s
  
• “Thicker Than Liquor” (The Wild Birds) 1930
  
• “Nearly to the Fair” (Watch With Me) 1932
  
• “The Solemn Boy” (Watch With Me) 1934
  
• “A Jonquil for Mary Penn” (Fidelity) 1940
  
• “Turn Back the Bed” (Watch With Me*) 1941
  
• A World Lost 1944
  
• “The Divide” (How It Went) 1945
  
• “Making it Home” (Fidelity) 1945
  
• A Place on Earth 1945
  
• “One Nearly Perfect Day” (How It Went) 1946
  
• “Where Did They Go?” (The Wild Birds) 1947
  
• The Memory of Old Jack 1952
  
• “It Wasn’t Me” (The Wild Birds) 1953
  
• “The Boundary” (The Wild Birds) 1965
  
• “That Distant Land” (The Wild Birds) 1965
  
• “The Wild Birds” (The Wild Birds) 1967
  
• Jayber Crow 1970s
  
• “Are You All Right?” (Fidelity) 1973
  
• Remembering 1975
  
• “Fidelity” (Fidelity) 1977
  
• Hannah Coulter 1990s
  
• “Pray Without Ceasing” (Fidelity) 1990
  
• “Andy Catlett: Early Education” 1990s or 2000s?
  
• “The Branch Way of Doing” (How It Went) 2004
  
• “A Conversation” (How It Went) 2013
  
• “A Clearing” (How It Went) 2014
  
• “Time out of Time” (How It Went) 2015
  
• Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story 2024