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- Birth nameWendell Erdman Berry
- Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934 in Port Royal, Kentucky, USA. He is a writer, known for Peace Awaits (2013), The Unforeseen (2007) and Look & See: Further (2025).
- SpouseTanya Amyx(1957 - August 31, 2026) (his death, 2 children)
- Earned his bachelor and master's degrees in English from the University of Kentucky.
- Protested the Vietnam War, saying in 1968 that "peace is more important than victory,".
- Arrested in 1979 for trespassing as he protested the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant in Madison, Indiana.
- Came from a long line of tobacco producers. John M. Berry, his father, co-founded the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-Op in the 1920s, which stabilized the price of tobacco and helped farmers who would have been subject to the pricing impulses of the monopoly American Tobacco Company.
- Prolific writer of nonfiction, poetry and fiction from Henry County, Kentucky.
- The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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