Vermont is a splendid place in which to read. The state abounds with writers and bookstores. We are close to nature and the land; we have long winters; we have the isolation and the time to create. Many famous writers have lived here: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Wallace Stegner and E. Annie Proulx; poet Robert Frost; novelist and autobiographer Jamaica Kincaid; Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl Buck; Rudyard Kipling; and poet and translator Galway Kinnell, among them. Every summer, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference brings many world-renowned writers to teach and to give public readings; other readings abound throughout the state and year in book shops and on college campuses.
It's difficult to highlight a few as the quality of works produced in the Green Mountain State has always been high. I've chosen to recommend writers and their works which will introduce you to the state and its character (and characters). Most of the works are still in print, but if not, our state is full of used book shops in which to find regional and state-based books.
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