Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Wendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011. Photograph: Ed Reinke/APView image in fullscreenWendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011. In prose and poetry that mirrored the uncluttered and deeply felt life he advocated, Berry challenged modern assumptions about prosperity and happiness and renewed the mysteries of birth, love, work and death.
- ▪Wendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011.
- ▪Photograph: Ed Reinke/APView image in fullscreenWendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011.
- ▪In prose and poetry that mirrored the uncluttered and deeply felt life he advocated, Berry challenged modern assumptions about prosperity and happiness and renewed the mysteries of birth, love, work and death.
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Wendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011. He has died aged 92. Photograph: Ed Reinke/APView image in fullscreenWendell Berry, pictured at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky in 2011. He has died aged 92. Photograph: Ed Reinke/APBooksWendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at homeAssociated PressTue 1 Sep 2026 02.34 EDTLast modified on Tue 1 Sep 2026 13.30 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleWendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian whose poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial,…
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