Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, a poet, essayist and novelist, tends a farm with his wife Tanya near Port Royal, Kentucky. In 1958, he was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University's creative writing program, where he studied under Stegner in a seminar that included Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen and Ken Kesey. His first novel, <i>Nathan Coulter</i>, was published in 1960. <i>The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture</i> is his best known work of nonfiction.