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Wendell Berry

"A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist of our day."--New York Review of Books

"Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day."-- Christian Science Monitor

Wendell Berry is the author of more than forty 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.

"My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place."

Wallace Stegner has written, "It is hard to say whether I like this writer better as a poet, an essayist, or a novelist. He is all three, at a high level."

Wendell Berry's books of essays include:

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Home Economics
Citizenship Papers
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Another Turn of the Crank
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
Standing by Words: Essays
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
What Are People For?: Essays
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
Imagination in Place

Unsettling of America

The Gift of Good Land

Home Economics

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