Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams (1986)[1] and his Of Wolves and Men (1978) was a National Book Award finalist.[1]
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Biography [edit]
Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York[2] and raised in Southern California and New York City.[3] He attended the University of Notre Dame, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees there in 1966 and 1968. He also attended New York University and the University of Oregon.[2] His essays, short stories, reviews and opinion pieces began appearing in 1966.[4] Until 1981, he was also a landscape photographer.[5] He regularly collaborates with other artists and writers and is active in national and international efforts toward reconciliation.[6] He has traveled to nearly 70 countries and in 2003 was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club.[7]
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 Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, with Debra Gwartney, The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005, and The Future of Nature. In 2008, he guest edited two volumes of the journal Manoa with Frank Stewart, Maps of Reconciliation and Gates of Reconciliation.[8] Lopez along with Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin, was hailed in Mark Tredinnick's The Land's Wild Music (Trinity University Press, 2005) in which Tredinnick analyzed how the landscape nourished and developed Lopez's writing.
In the January 2013 edition of Harper's magazine, Lopez wrote about the trauma of sexual abuse he suffered as a boy, between the ages of seven and eleven, at the hands of a fraudulent doctor.[9]
An archive of Lopez's manuscripts and other work has been established at Texas Tech University,[10] where he was the university's visiting distinguished scholar.[7]
Lopez lives near Finn Rock on the McKenzie River in western Oregon.[11]
Bibliography [edit]
Fiction [edit]
- 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), Oregon Book Award winner
Non-fiction [edit]
- Of Wolves and Men (1978), National Book Award finalist
- Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986), National Book Award and Oregon 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)
- Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape with Debra Gwartney (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010)
His writing has appeared in Harper's, Orion, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, The Sun, and Manoa, and in Best American Essays, The Best American Spiritual Writing, and the "best of" collections from Outside, National Geographic, The Paris Review, Witness, and The Georgia Review.[6]
Awards [edit]
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- National Book Award
- Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Lannan Literary Award
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- John Burroughs Medal
- John Hay Medal
- Three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards
- Two Oregon Book Awards
- Two Pushcart Prizes
- Two Christopher Medals
- PEN Syndicated Fiction Award
- Five National Science Foundation Antarctica Fellowships
- Lannan Residency Fellowship
- MacDowell Residency Fellowship
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award
- Oregon Governor's Award
- Elected Fellow of the Explorer's Club
References [edit]
- ^ a b "The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
- ^ a b Evans, Alice. "Leaning Into the Light: An Interview With Barry Lopez." Poets & Writers March/April 1994 [22(2)], pp 62-79.
- ^ Shapiro, Michael. "The Big Rhythm: A Conversation with Barry Lopez on the McKenzie River." Michigan Quarterly Review Fall 2005 [44(4)], pp 583-610.
- ^ Barry Lopez: An Inventory of His Papers (Part 1), 1964-2001 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
- ^ Newell, Mike. No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez. XOXOX Press: Ohio. 2008.
- ^ a b Barry Lopez official website
- ^ a b Marquis. Who's Who in America 2008. Marquis Who's Who: Providence, NJ.
- ^ Manoa website
- ^ http://harpers.org/archive/2013/01/sliver-of-sky/
- ^ "Texas Tech University :: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". Swco.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
- ^ Wadsworth, Lois (April 25, 2002). "Between Two Worlds". Eugene Weekly. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
Further reading [edit]
- Newell, Mike. No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez. XOXOX Press: Ohio. 2008.
- Tydeman, William E. Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK. 2013 (forthcoming).
- Wild, Peter (1984). Barry Lopez. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University "Western Writers Series" (#94). pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884300380; OCLC 10984800
External links [edit]
- Barry Lopez (official website)
- Works by or about Barry Lopez in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Barry Lopez papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
- Interview with Bill Moyers
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