Wendell Berry Biography

Wendell Berry was born in 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky. From the University of Kentucky in 1956, he earned a bachelor's degree and went on to receive a masters degree in 1957. He also received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University in 1958. Berry has taught at Georgetown College, New York University, Stanford University, the University of Cincinnati, and Bucknell University. From 1964 to 1977, he taught at his alma mater, the University of Kentucky and again from 1987 to 1993. As an author of more than 40 works of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1962), the Vachel Lindsay Prize from Poetry (1962), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1965), a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing (1971), the Emily Clark Balch Prize from The Virginia Quarterly Review (1974), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award (1987), a Lannan Foundation Award for Non-Fiction (1989), Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers (1991), the Ingersoll Foundation's T. S. Eliot Award (1994), the John Hay Award (1997), the Lyndhurst Prize (1997), and the Aitken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee Review (1998). His books include the novel Hannah Coulter (2004), the essay collections Citizenship Papers (2005) and The Way of Ignorance (2006), and Given: Poems (2005), all available from Counterpoint. Berry's latest works include The Mad Farmer Poems (2008) and Whitefoot (2009), which features illustrations by Davis Te Selle. He lives and works on the farm in Port Royal, Kentucky, with his wife Tanya Berry.

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