Barry Lopez

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Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.

Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York and raised in Southern California and New York City.[1] He attended the University of Notre Dame, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees there in 1966 and 1968, and he went on to further graduate study at the University of Oregon in 1968 and 1969.

Lopez has been described as "the nation’s premier nature writer" by the San Francisco Chronicle. In his non-fiction, he frequently examines the relationship between human culture and physical landscape, while in his fiction he addresses issues of intimacy, ethics and identity. He has written introductions for and guest edited a number of books and anthologies, including Best Spiritual Writing, and The Future of Nature. In 2008, he guest edited two volumes of the journal Manoa on the theme of reconciliation.

An archive of Lopez's manuscripts and other works has been established at Texas Tech University,[2] where he is the university's visiting distinguished scholar.

Lopez lives on the McKenzie River in western Oregon.[3]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Fiction

  • Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven (1976)
  • Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter (1978)
  • River Notes: The Dance of Herons (1979)
  • Winter Count (1981)
  • Crow and Weasel (1990)
  • Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren (1994)
  • Lessons from the Wolverine (1997)
  • Light Action in the Caribbean (2000)
  • Resistance (2004)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Of Wolves and Men (1978), National Book Award finalist
  • Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986), National Book Award winner
  • Crossing Open Ground (1988)
  • The Rediscovery of North America (1991)
  • About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (1998)
  • Apologia (1998)


His writing has appeared in Harper's, Orion, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, The Sun, and Manoa, and in Best American Essays, Best Spiritual Writing, and the "best" collections from National Geographic, Outside, The Paris Review, and The Georgia Review.[citation needed]

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Barry Lopez official website
  2. ^ Warren Awarded Mellon and Formby Fellowships for Sabbatical Year
  3. ^ Wadsworth, Lois. "Between Two Worlds", Eugene Weekly, April 25, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-05-06. 
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