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. ↧ Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, h... “The old world in which our people lived by the work of their hands, close to weather and earth, plants and animals, was the true world,” he wrote in a 2006 novel.