Wendell Berry is the author of more than 40 books of essays and poetry, and a number of novels. The New York Review of Books called him a Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the greatest moral essayist of our day. A ruralist, he has taught at Stanford, at New York University, and at the University of Kentucky in his home state, where, since 1965, he has worked the 125-acre farm that has been in his family since the early 1800s. Berry is a past fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.