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Biography

Name: Wendell (Erdman) Berry
Variant Name: Wendell Berry, Wendell Erdman Berry
Birth Date: August 5, 1934
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Wendell (Erdman) Berry
10,342 words, approx. 35 pages
An author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, Wendell Berry has received high praise from major nature writers such as Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey. Stegner, with whom Berry studied, comments, "It is hard to say whether I like...
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Biography of Wendell (Erdman) Berry
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A distinguished essayist and accomplished poet, Wendell Berry has also established himself as an important novelist and short-story writer. Since the publication of his first novel, Nathan Coulter (1960), Berry has earned a place as an important...
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Biography of Wendell (Erdman) Berry
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Wendell Berry is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose steady literary achievement has earned him wide recognition both as an artist and as a spokesman for contemporary environmental concerns. Amid the more frequent and more widely ranging poetry and...
 


Quotations
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Wendell Berry Quotes
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Wendell Berry (born 5 August 1934 ) is an American philosopher, poet, essayist, farmer, novelist and social activist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Long-Legged House (1969) 1.2 A Continuous Harmony (1972) 1.3 What Are People For? (1990) 1.4 Sex, Economy,...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wendell Erdman Berry (1934 – ) American Writer, Poet, and Conservationist Summary
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A Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, essayist and conservationist, Berry has been a persistent critic of large-scale industrial agriculture—which he believes to be a contradiction in terms—and a champion of environmental stewardship and...
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Wendell Berry Information
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Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is also an elected member of the...


News and Journals
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Christianity and Literature
From the editors.(on Wendell Berry)
01/01/2007: 1,062 words, approx. 4 pages
We are very pleased to devote this special issue of Christianity and Literature to an analysis and appreciation of the work of Wendell Berry, whose writings have provoked and enriched readers for more than forty years. In addition to the essays on Berry's...
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Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
The Tragedy of the Commonwealth and the Vision of Wendell Berry
04/01/2006: 16,488 words, approx. 55 pages
All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Stephen Whited
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In the following essay, Whited views Berry's work as a repudiation of consumer culture in favor of an appreciation and understanding of a value system based on spiritual, communal, and familial concerns.
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Critical Essay by John R. Knott
8,800 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Knot examines the role of wilderness in Berry's work.
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Critical Essay by Robert Collins
8,013 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Collins asserts that Berry's poetry and prose stresses the importance of poetry in a technological world.
 


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