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Wendell Berry
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American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky (1934-2026)

Also known as: Wendell Erdman Berry, Венделл Берри, وينديل بيري, 웬델 베리, ウェンデル・ベリー, 溫德爾·貝瑞

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Known works

  • Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2005)
  • The Unsettling of America (1977)
  • Bringing it to the table (2009)
  • A world lost (1996)
  • Jayber Crow : the life story of Jayber Crow, barber, of the Port William membership, as written by himself (2001)