Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, born August 5, 1934 in Henry Couty, Kentucky. This man is an American "man of letters, acadmenic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is the author of novels, short stories, poems and essays.

Berry earned his bachelor's degree from the Univeristy of Kentucky in 1956 and finished his master's in 1957. He has taught at many prestigious univeristies such as, Stanford, Georgetown, New York University and Bucknell.

He has published over forty works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. These publications have earned him several awards and honors from the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to the T.S. Eliot Award and many, many more.

He currently
lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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