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Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a novelist, poet, farmer, and environmental writer and activist. He has published over fifty books, including more than two dozen books of poetry, sixteen essay collections, and eight novels. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. He has made his home with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Henry County, Kentucky, for the last fifty years.
Decades before the Green New Deal made headlines, Wendell Berry sounded the alarm about America's environmental crisis. . . . More than 40 years later, those observations are still timely and pertinent. They are also persuasive, because they reflect a common-sense approach rooted in experience, rather than partisan views. . . . Essential reading for those who want to understand how we arrived at this point in time, and how we can begin to shift our standards, priorities, and habits. --The Christian Science Monitor Seeing his arc in one place highlights both his complexity and his consistency. . . . Berry's essays serve as documents of the bewildering destruction in which our everyday lives involve us and as a testament to those qualities in people and traditions that resist the destruction. --The Nation
