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For many spiritual seekers, author Wendell Berry was a fellow pilgrim and contrarian
Wendell Berry lived as a Kentucky farmer and writer whose work linked care for the land with spiritual wholeness, drawing seekers to his porch and pages even after his death at 92.
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About Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry was 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).
Everything about Wendell Berry →- Occupation
- poet, novelist, writer, farmer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 5, 1934
- Died
- August 31, 2026
- Website
- http://www.wendellberrybooks.com/