Novelist Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry

Living place: Kentucky

Birthday: 5-8-1934 (90 years old)

Population of US 1934: 126,373,773

Global rank: #57894

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Who is Novelist Wendell Berry?
Author of novels, short stories, poems and essays and recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His most famous works include That Distant Land, Hannah Coulter, and A Lost World.
His first novel, published in 1960, was titled Nathan Coulter.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He grew up in Kentucky and worked on a farm as a child. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Kentucky and went on to attend Stanford University on a Wallace Stegner Fellowship.

Family life info

He was born to John Marshall Berry and Virginia Erdman Berry. He married Tanya Amyx in 1957.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Wendell Berry?
His poem, "Sabbath II," inspired the film, Unforeseen, produced by Robert Redford.

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When was Novelist Wendell Berry born?
Wendell Berry birthday 5-8-1934 (at the age of 90).
Where is Novelist Wendell Berry's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Wendell Berry was born in Kentucky, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Wendell Berry's global rank is 57894 and whose rank is 505 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1934 is about 126,373,773 persons.
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Events in 1934 and 5-8

Events in US in the birth year of Wendell Berry

  • Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Federal Communications Commission is established to regulate communications.
  • Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ambushed by lawmen in Louisiana. John Dillinger is shot outside Chicago movie theater.
  • Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma ("Dust Bowl").

Birthday Wendell Berry (5-8) in history

  • Day 5-8 year 1861: For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.
  • Day 5-8 year 1884: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island.
  • Day 5-8 year 1914: The first electric traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Day 5-8 year 1962: Marilyn Monroe died.
  • Day 5-8 year 1963: The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union signed the limited Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater.
  • Day 5-8 year 1969: The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 transmitted pictures of Mars.
  • Day 5-8 year 1984: Joan Benoit won the first Olympic women's marathon.
  • Day 5-8 year 2002: The gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the ocean floor.
  • Day 5-8 year 2003: The Rev. Gene Robinson was approved as the first openly gay bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church.
  • Day 5-8 year 2012: The plutonium-powered rover Curiosity successfully lands on Mars. Larger than earlier rovers, Curiosity will spend two years examining the land, looking for evidence that conditions on Mars are fit for life.
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