Wendell Berry (1934–2026) was an American author of nature poetry, novels of America’s rural past, and essays and books on ecological responsibility. His writing drew from his experiences as a farmer in his native Kentucky. Berry’s best-known works include his novels Jayber Crow (2000) and Hannah Coulter (2004), his poem “The Peace of Wild Things,” and his nonfiction book The Unsettling of America (1977), a defense of farming practices that work in harmony with nature and a manifesto against agribusiness and its impact on the land.
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