Wendell Berry is a master of all literary genres and was awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Berry explores the notion of living a principled life in accordance with the natural world. His many volumes of poetry include The Broken Ground, The Country of Marriage, and Collected Poems, 1957–1982. True to his vision, Berry lives with his wife, Tanya, on a farm in Kentucky that has been in his family since the nineteenth century.
Photograph by Guy Mendes
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- A Matter of Necessity, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
- The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays, a review or criticism, in Winter 2007