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Wendell Berry
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. He earned an MA in English at the University of Kentucky in 1957 and in 1958 joined Stanford University’s creative writing program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, studying under Stegner and with Edward Abbey, Larry McMurtry, Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen, Robert Stone, and Ken Kesey. In 1961 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to spend a year in Tuscany. From 1962–64 he taught English at NYU before returning to the University of Kentucky, where he taught English and creative writing from 1964 until 1977 and then again from 1987 to 1993. He has published over fifty books, including over twenty-five books of poetry, sixteen essay collections, and eight novels. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he rece
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“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,” [Margaret] said. “This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won’t be a movement, because it will rest upon the earth.
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910)1
One night in the winter of 1907, at what we have always called “the home place” in Henry County, Kentucky, my father, then six years old, sat with his older brother and listened as their parents spoke of the uses they would have for the money from their 1906 tobacco crop. The crop was to be sold at auction in Louisville on the next day. They would have been sitting in the light of a kerosene lamp, close to the stove, warming themselves before bedtime. They were not wealthy people. I believe that the debt on their farm was not fully paid, there would have been interest to pay, there would have been other debts. The depression of the 1890s would have left them burdened. Perhaps, after the income from the crop had paid their obligations, there would be some money that they could spend as
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Wendell Berry
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| Born | (1934-08-05) August 5, 1934 (age 90) Eminence, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, farmer, writer, activist, teacher |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Kentucky (B.A; M.A., English, 1957) |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, essays |
| Subject | agriculture, rural life, community |
Wendell E. Berry[1] (born August 5, 1934) is an Americannovelist, poet, environmental activist, critic of culture, and farmer. He has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers[2] and was given The National Humanities Medal.[3] He was named to be the Jefferson Lecturer[4] for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] In 2013 he was given the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.[6]
On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be added to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.[7][8]
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