About Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry 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). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port William, such as A Place on Earth (1967), Jayber Crow (2000), and That Distant Land (2004).
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Awards & Honors
Thomas Merton Award
Poets' Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Humanities Medal
Helmerich Award
Jefferson Lecture
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
