Wendell Erdman Berry (born Aug 5, 1934) is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan , Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky. Less