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): Andreas Weimann • Athula Samarasekera • Bob Clark • Bruce Coslet • Claude Autant-Lara • David Clarke (ice hockey) • Erkan Zengin • Kathrin Zettel • Lolo Jones • Oleh Luzhnyi • Roger Clark • Tamás Faragó • Terri Clark • Terry Becker • Tom Drake • Tom Gilbert (rugby league) • Valdis Dombrovskis • Vasbert Drakes
Born in the same month (August 1934): Derek Birdsall • Dimitris Papamichael • Haystacks Calhoun • Jonas Savimbi • Lise Bacon • Piers Anthony • Rafer Johnson • Reginald Scarlett • Tevfik Kış • Tom Heinsohn