and his poetry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendell-berry
I wonder whether the process has much to do with that:
"My wife types my work on a Royal standard typewriter bought new in 1956 and as good now as it was then. As she types, she sees things that are wrong and marks them with small checks in the margins. She is my best critic because she is the one most familiar with my habitual errors and weaknesses. She also understands, sometimes better than I do, what ought to be said"
Seems like an old school "behind every great man" thing.
Financially no doubt she was covered. Should worse come to worst, by the 1980's divorce could net her significant financial worth of the partnership.
But social credit for her achievements were rather small. It is one thing to have an editor, but quite another for the editor to be wedded to the job for just one writer. Every story/book bore his name, no matter that he happily credits her work in his personal missives.
And so social standards changing in this regard is for the better. But it's not like I think he is a monster - he is a product of his day as much as we are of ours.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/solidarity-economy/2017/12...
In many ways, I feel that this article gives credit to the woman who otherwise was little credited. But apparently, she didn't care either way.