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 Timeshas 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