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): Anne Acheson • Christian Olde Wolbers • Guillaume Du Fay • Horace Rawlins • Ikuto Hidaka • Karl Johan Åström • Konrad Hurrell • L. Tom Perry • Roberta Dodd Crawford • Roy Benavidez • Takakeishō Takanobu • Theodore Whitmore • Vladimir Fedoseyev • Yungblud
Born in the same month (August 1934): Antonio Cabangon-Chua • Bob Hepple • Chris Bonington • David Durenberger • Douglas Kirkland • Eddie Ilarde • John Standing • Kenny Baker (English actor) • Lise Bacon • Pierre Richard • Ron Henry • Sarat Pujari • Tom Heinsohn • Tom Mangold • Valentin Varlamov • Valery Bykovsky