An Arizona native, Earl is a poet and photographer, writing eclectically on everything from the environment to gold mining camps, time, war, poverty, shadows, sexuality, friendship, hermits, children, hope, aging, coyotes, hawks, brigands, fools, danger and death. A social scientist by training, he founded Behavior Research Center, Inc. in 1965, where he created and was Editor of the respected and widely published Rocky Mountain Poll for 35 years. Earl’s photographs, logbooks and essays serve as foundations for his prose and poems. Big Ears Jack and Friends is a charming series of short stories featuring animals and plants of the Sonoran Desert for young readers.

Earl has published 3 collections of poems, the most recent is Wind in the Elephant Tree, following Swans to Guide Me and Allegro to Life, both published in 2022. A Finger of Land on An Old Man’s Hand is a fascinating account, laced with his poetry and photos, of his adventures as a young man in the Sonoran deserts of Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona. One reviewer called the book, ". . . a beautifully written, fabulous tale of an incredibly brave and daring journey." In their 5-star review, ReaderViews said, "A Finger of Land on an Old Man’s Hand by Earl Vincent de Berge is the stark, witty, and profound memoir of four college students testing their limits on the Baja Peninsula in the summer of 1962. One could think of this as the classic literary assignment, 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation.' Only to do so would be to grossly underestimate this narrative."

Earl is currently writing a biography of an iconoclastic poet, while continuing to write new poems.

Earl and his wife Suzanne split their time between Arizona and Guatemala where they founded the non-profit Seeds for a Future (www.SeedsforaFuture.org) which provides training to rural women with limited financial resources on how to improve family access to adequate food and nutrition, via home gardens and raising small animals for protein.