James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his essays The Geography Of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and The Long Emergency (2005), where he imagines peak oil and oil depletion resulting in the end of industrialized society, forcing Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. In World Made by Hand he branches into a Speculative Fiction depiction of this future world.
His works include:
Novels
- The Wampanaki Tales (1979)
- A Clown in the Moonlight (1981)
- The Life of Byron Jaynes (1983)
- An Embarrassment of Riches (1985)
- Blood Solstice (1986)
- The Halloween Ball (1987)
- Bagging Bigfoot / The Hunt (1988)
- Thunder Island (1989)
- Maggie Darling (2003)
- World Made by Hand (2008)
- The Witch of Hebron (2010)
- A History of the Future (2014)
- The Harrows of Spring (2016)
- Manhattan Gothic (2012)
- A Safe and Happy Place (2017)
- The Law of the Jungle (2018)
- The Fall of the Ancients (2018)
- A Christmas Orphan (2019)
Essays
- Geography of Nowhere (1993)
- Home from Nowhere (1996)
- The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (2001)
- The Long Emergency (2005)
- Too Much Magic (2012)
- Living in the Long Emergency (2020)
