What is Wendell Berry?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Wendell Berry | image = A New Harvest, with Wendell Berry, Henry County, KY, 2011 - photograph by Guy Mendes (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Berry in December 2011 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|8|5}} | birth_place = [[Eminence, Kentucky]], U.S. | occupation = Poet, farmer, writer, [[activism | activist]], teacher | nationality = American | period = | genre = Fiction, poetry, essays | subject = agriculture, [[rural area | rural life]], community | education = [[University of Kentucky]] (B.A; M.A., English, 1957) }} '''Wendell E. Berry'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-biography |title=Wendell E. Berry biography |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=April 26, 2015}}</ref> (born August 5, 1934) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Novel|novelist]], [[poet]], [[environmental activist]], [[Criticism|critic]] of [[culture]], and [[farmer]]. He has written many novels, short stories, [[Poetry|poems]], and [[Essay|essays]]. He is an elected member of the [[Fellowship of Southern Writers]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=FSW {{!}} Current Members|url=https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/members|access-date=2022-12-30|website=fellowship|language=en|archive-date=2022-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230154353/https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/members|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was given [[The National Humanities Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The National Endowment for the Humanities|url=https://www.neh.gov/taxonomy/term/246|access-date=2022-12-30|website=The National Endowment For The Humanities|language=en}}</ref> He was named to be the [[Jefferson Lecture]]r<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jefferson Lecture|url=https://www.neh.gov/our-work/awards-honors/jefferson-lecture|access-date=2022-12-30|website=The National Endowment for