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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. He is the author of over 50 books of…
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...
Apr 19, 2024 · Wendell Berry, American author whose nature poetry, novels of America’s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer. A number of his works are set in the fictional Kentucky town of Port William. Learn more about Berry’s life and career.
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.
Jul 14, 2019 · The New Yorker Interview. Going Home with Wendell Berry. The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America. By Amanda Petrusich. July 14, 2019....
Nov 5, 2022 · Nov 05, 202210:30 AM. kellyvandellen/iStock/Getty Images Plus. For more than six decades, a steady breeze of earth-scented essays, novels, poetry, and short stories has tumbled from a small farm in...
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