Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

(1934) author United States

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[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] 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 attenti

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).

Notable works:

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Awards:

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|Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

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