Wendell Berry, Poet and Farmer Who Wrote Against Industrial Agriculture, Dies at 92
The Kentucky writer, who spent decades defending small family farms and the land itself, has died, The New York Times reports.
Wendell Berry, the American writer and Kentucky farmer whose essays, poems and novels argued for a return to small-scale agriculture and against the industrialization of farming, has died at 92, according to The New York Times.
The Times describes him as a lifelong champion of family farms and the environment, whose long career of writing against agribusiness earned him widespread acclaim.
The obituary offers no further detail on his final years, his last works, or funeral arrangements. Tomeling will follow up if French-language coverage or new translations of his work emerge.
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