Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port William, such as A Place on Earth (1967), Jayber Crow (2000), and That Distant Land (2004).
5 August 1934
Born on the same birth date (5 August 1934): Gay Byrne • Karl Johan Åström
Born on the same birth day (5 August): Devan Nair • Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent • Herminio Masantonio • John Jarratt • Motoi Sakuraba • Paula Creamer • Richard Ottley • Roger Clark • Wayne Bridge • Xavier Trias
Born in the same month (August 1934): Angela Buxton • Chris Bonington • Dallas Green (baseball) • David Durenberger • Derek Birdsall • Dimitris Papamichael • Haystacks Calhoun • João Donato • Karl Johan Åström • Ketty Lester • Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. • Piers Anthony • Reginald Scarlett • Renée Richards • Roberto Clemente • Ron Henry • Sam Trimble • Sarat Pujari • Sneaky Pete Kleinow • Sonny Jurgensen • Sándor Simó • Tom Mangold • Vincent Bugliosi