Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry is a poet, essayist, and novelist, who has been called the “prophet of rural America.” Mr. Berry, who pursues what he calls “an ethic and way of life based upon devotion to a place and devotion to a land,” lives and works on his farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.
He has published more than 30 books, including The Wheel, Sabbaths, and Openings (poetry); The Wild Birds, Watch with Me, and Remembering (fiction); and Another Turn of the Crank, What Are People For?, and The Unsettling of America (nonfiction).
He received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1989.
Wendell Berry elsewhere on Lannan.org
Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry with Jack Shoemaker, 1999, (Events)Wendell Berry, 1989, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)
Wendell Berry Lannan Podcast Episodes
Wendell Berry, Reading, 10 November 1999 - VideoGary Snyder, Reading, 10 Nov 1999 - Video
Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder in conversation with Jack Shoemaker, 10 Nov 1999 - Video
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