![]() ![]() From 1962 to 1964, he taught English at New York University's University College in the Bronx. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship took Berry and his family to Italy and France in 1961, where he came to know Wallace Fowlie, professor of French at Duke University. Berry's first novel, Nathan Coulter, was published in April 1960. In 1958, he attended Stanford University's creative writing program thanks to a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, studying under Stegner in a seminar that included Larry McMurtry, Edward Abbey, and Ken Kesey. ![]() in English at the University of Kentucky. Berry attended secondary school at Millersburg Military Institute, then earned a B.A. The families of both of his parents have farmed in Henry County for at least five generations. ![]() Berry is the first of four children born to John Berry, a lawyer and tobacco farmer in Henry County, and Virginia Berry. ![]()
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