Wendell Berry, champion of simple living and rural literature, dies at 92
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author famed for his Port William stories and his advocacy of agrarian, environmentally mindful living, has died at age 92. Known for a life on a hillside farm with his wife Tanya and a career that spanned poetry, fiction, and essays critiquing industrial society, Berry left a lasting imprint on American literature and cultural thought.