The Last Word

Writers have always been an integral part of the Vermont landscape... the mountains, lakes, plains and valleys provide both the inspiration for their work, and the privacy often necessary to produce it. Addison County is blessed with its fair share of contemporary authors and poets, among them:

Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape
Julia Alvarez, Saving the World
David Haward Bain, The College on the Hill: A Browser's History for the Bicentennial
Ed Barna, Covered Bridges of Vermont
Chris Bohjalian, Before You Know Kindness
John Elder, The Norton Book of Nature Writing
Don Mitchell, Living Upcountry: A Pilgrim's Progress
Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Biography
Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life
Phoebe Stone, When the Wild Bears Go Dancing
Nancy Means Wright, Harvest of Bones

These, and many other books by local authors or relating to the region, can be found at Deerleap Books in Bristol, Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury or numerous used bookstores found throughout the area such as Bulwagga Books & Gallery in Whiting and Monroe Street Books in Middlebury.