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Wendell Berry dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. Wendell Berry dies. Wendell Erdman Berry was
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  an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
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  Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his
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  agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of
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  Good Land and The Unsettling of America. His attention to
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  the culture and economy of rural communities is also found
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  in the novels and stories of Port Williams. such as
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  A Place on Earth, Jaber Crow, and That Distant Land.
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  Berry was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers,
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  a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and delivered the
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  Jefferson Lecture for 2012. He was also a 2013 Fellow
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  of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and, from
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  2014 to his death, a member of the American Academy
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  of Arts and Letters. Berry was named the recipient of
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  the 2013 Richard C. Holbrook Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015,
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  he became the first living writer to be inducted into
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  the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. That's it for now.
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  See the episode notes for sources and licensing. Thank you.