Wendell Berry is a poet and the author of fiction that includes A Place on Earth, Remembering, Fidelity, The Memory of Old Jack, A World Lost and Jayber Crow. His essays are The Unforeseen Wilderness, What are People For?, Another Turn of the Crank, Life is a Miracle and The Unsettling of America, which became a manual for the conservation movement.  He is a past Fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.