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...

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...

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...

Wendell Berry lives with his wife and two children on a hillside farm on the Kentucky River near Port Royal, Kentucky. In his writing he has particularized his land and his home as fully as Jesse Stuart, Kentucky's poet laureate, has particularized...