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Biography of Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English, and poet. He was born August 5, 1934 in Henry Country, Kentucky where he now lives on a farm. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America." Wendell Berry is the author of more than 30 books of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He is a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and letters in 1971, and most recently, the T. S. Eliot Award.

World Wisdom has included essays by Wendell Berry in the following publications:

The "Foreword" in God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition
"Christianity and the Survival of Creation" in Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred
"Ignorance" in Science and the Myth of Progress
"Two Economies" in Every Man An Artist: Readings In The Traditional Philosophy Of Art
The "Foreword" in Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion

Books/DVDs containing the work of Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry's work in World Wisdom books:

The "Foreword" in God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition (by Brian Keeble)
The essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation" in Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred
The essay "Ignorance" in Science and the Myth of Progress (edited by Mehrdad M. Zarandi)
The essay "Two Economies" in Every Man An Artist: Readings In The Traditional Philosophy Of Art (edited by Brian Keeble)
The "Foreword" in Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion (edited by Christopher James and Joseph A. Fitzgerald)

Wendell Berry’s Writings Online

Foreword to Of the Land and the Spirit

Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology & Religion

Berry, Wendell

Modernism

Two Economies

Every Man an Artist: Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art

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Online Resources about Wendell Berry

	The Wikipedia page devoted to Wendell Berry has some good detailed bibliographic information, some biographical facts, and a number of interesting links.
	There is another particularly useful web page on Wendell Berry, which has an extraordinary number of links to more information on Mr. Berry's life and work. Although Wendell Berry does not have an official web site, which is not surprising to those who know his work, this site is almost certainly the most exhaustive collection of information about him on the internet.