Wendell Berry’s (b. 1934) prolific writing career has centered around his firmly held agrarian values, including sustainable agriculture and husbandry. Berry was raised in Henry County, Kentucky by a tobacco farming family with long ties to the community. Berry was a strong writer growing up, and earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky. Berry published his first novel, Nathan Coulter, at the age of 36, and has written more than 40 books of poetry, fiction, and essays since. Many of Berry’s novels center around the fictional agrarian small town of Port William, Kentucky. Berry has enjoyed a noteworthy academic career as a professor at the University of Kentucky, Stanford University, and Georgetown University, among others. He married Tanya Amyx in 1957.