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"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."
Wendell Berry was born in Newcastle, Kentucky,
1934. He earned both his B.A. and his M.A. at the
University of Kentucky at Lexington, and still calls
Kentucky home today. At the heart of Berry’s work
is his native land. He has written over thirty
books of poetry, essays and novels.
His collections
of poetry include A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath
Poems 1979-1997,
Entries: Poems,
Traveling at Home,
Collected Poems 1957-1982,
and The Broken Ground. Remembering
and
A World Lost are among his critically
praised novels.
Berry has dedicated his life’s work to defending the
traditional family farm, and rural communities. He
is a fierce supporter of the preservation of
ecological diversity and an educator on the
ecological principles, small town economies and
rural communities:
He
and his wife live with their two children on a farm,
the family farm, in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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