Wendell Berry is the author of more than 50 books — essays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, T.S. Eliot Award, National Humanities Medal, Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and many others. Most of his novels and short stories are set in the fictional Kentucky town of Port William, including his short story collections That Distant Land and A Place in Time. Wendell Berry lives and works on a farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.