Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (1934-2026) was a poet, essayist, novelist, and farmer, called the “prophet of rural America.” Mr. Berry, who pursued what he called “an ethic and way of life based upon devotion to a place and devotion to a land,” lived and worked on his farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

He 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).

Wendell Berry received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1989.