Wendell Berry, the writer and farmer, died on 2023-08-31 at age 92 in his home in Henry County, Kentucky. ^[1] Wendell Berry, an American poet, farmer, novelist, essayist, and conservationist, died at age 92. ^[2] Mere Orthodoxy, a reader-supported publication dedicated to faith, church, and culture, published a memorial tribute to the late author Wendell Berry. ^[3] Berry, born in 1934 on a farm in north-central Kentucky, earned two degrees in English at the University of Kentucky, was a creative writing fellow at Stanford University, taught at New York University, and at age 30 returned to Henry County, Kentucky, to farm land that his ancestors had worked since 1803. ^[4] Norman Wirzba, professor of theology, ecology, and rural life at Duke Divinity School, said that at the 2013 American Academy of Religion conference, attendees treated Berry like a prophet, wanting to touch him and say "You have changed my life," and that Berry helped people understand that preservation of land is inseparable from preservation of communities. ^[5] President Barack Obama presented Berry a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011 for his lifetime of work. ^[6] Berry's novels and short stories are mostly set in a fictionalized version of his home county in rural Kentucky, with places such as Port William and Port Henry. ^[7] Readers are encouraged to support the work to fund commissioned writers, published journals, and essays that resist the modern news cycle. ^[8] The tribute highlights Wendell Berry's legacy as a writer and thinker who influenced the publication's values of thoughtful, long-form Christian journalism. ^[9] Berry wrote the poems 'Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front' and 'The Peace of Wild Things', both quoted at length in the essay. ^[10] The author describes Berry as a Southern Baptist who, while pervasively religious, rarely wrote explicitly religious works, and quotes his line 'There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.' ^[11] The publication provides content including long-form essays, a quarterly print journal, the Mere Fidelity podcast, and a private Discord community for members. ^[12]