An old-fashioned, sometimes curmudgeonly moralist, Berry rejects cyberculture and finds soul in the soil. His message: If you care about the world, you’ve got to take care of it. The Kentucky tobacco farmer, conservationist, and professor of English and creative writing is the author of fiction, poetry, and essays, including The Gift of Good Land,The Unsettling of America, and Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community.