biography
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Berry, Wendell (Erdman)
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and farmer, born in New Castle, Kentucky, USA. He studied at the University of Kentucky, Lexington (1956 BA; 1957 MA), taught at various institutions, and at one time was an editor for Rodale Press, Pennsylvania. An ardent defender of the countryside and rural communities, his writing is concerned with the abuse of land and human responsibility to the Earth. His earliest collection of poetry on this theme was The Broken Ground (1964). Novels include The Memory of Old Jack (1974). Non-fiction works include The Unsettling of America (1977), The Gift of Good Land (1981), What Are People For? (1990), Sex, Economy, Freedom and the Community (1993), and Another Turn of the Crank (1995). |
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