Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, has died at 920

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• September 1, 2026

NEW YORK — Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who in poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial, commercialized society, has died. He was 92. His daughter, Mary Berry, confirmed on Monday that he died in his home