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Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Oct 10, 2022 · Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry lives in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace, where he has maintained a farm for over 40 years. Mistrustful of technology, he holds deep reverence for the land and is a staunch defender of agrarian values.
Feb 21, 2022 · Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age. Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward. By Dorothy Wickenden. February 21, 2022. Berry...
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Port Royal, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American author whose nature poetry, novels of America’s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer.
Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in New Castle, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington where he received a BA in English in 1956 and an MA in 1957. Berry is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels.
Dec 7, 2021 · Wendell Berry could be described by many labels. More than anything else, he has been a voice of practical reason and concise cultural commentary in his more than 80 books published over six...
Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English and poet. He was born August 5, 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky where he now lives on a farm. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America."
Jul 14, 2019 · Wendell Berry is the author of more than eighty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Photograph by Guy Mendes. Two and a half years ago, feeling existentially adrift about...
Wendell Berry, Henry County, Kentucky, 1970s. (James Baker Hall) Major works: A Place on Earth • The Unsettling of America • Hannah Coulter • It All Turns on Affection • The Art of Loading Brush • The Sabbath Poems. Wendell Berry is a novelist, poet, farmer, and environmental writer and activist.
Nov 1, 2005 · Wendell Berry, farmer and poet, has lived in sight of the Kentucky River for 40 years, in a landscape where generations of his family have farmed since the early 1800s.
