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Born Aug 5, 1934 · Henry County, Virginia, USA
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal, Poets' Prize, National Humanities Medal, Jefferson Lecture, Helmerich Award, Thomas Merton Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good…