June 2009 - Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez was born in 1945 in Port Chester, New York. He grew up in Southern California and New York City and attended college in the Midwest before moving to Oregon, where he has lived since 1968. He is an essayist, author, and short-story writer, and has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world.

He is the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist for which he received the John Burroughs and Christopher medals, and eight works of fiction, including Light Action in the Caribbean, Field Notes, and Resistance. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground and About This Life. He contributes regularly to Granta, The Georgia Review, Orion, Outside, The Paris Review, Manoa and other publications in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Best American Essays, Best Spiritual Writing, and the “best” collections from National Geographic, Outside, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, and other periodicals.

His most recent book is Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, a reader's dictionary of regional landscape terms, which he edited with Debra Gwartney.

In his nonfiction, Mr. Lopez writes often about the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture. In his fiction, he frequently addresses issues of intimacy, ethics, and identity. His first stories were published in 1966. He has been a full-time writer since leaving graduate school in 1970 but occasionally accepts invitations to teach and lecture. He has been the Welch Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has taught fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and travels regularly to Texas Tech University where he is the university's Visiting Distinguished Scholar.

Mr. Lopez is a recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Hay Medal, Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundation fellowships, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and other honors. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of The Explorers Club.

Works by Barry Lopez


	About this life : journeys on the threshold of memory Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Apologia Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Arctic dreams Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Citadel of the spirit : Oregon's sesquicentennial anthology

	Crossing open ground Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Crow and Weasel Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Desert notes Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Field notes : the grace note of the canyon wren Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Giving birth to Thunder, sleeping with his daughter : Coyote builds North America Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Home ground : language for an American landscape

	Lessons from the wolverine Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Light action in the Caribbean : stories Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945- Set variously in Peru, Chile, the Caribbean, California, and the American West, here are tales of men and women exploring the landscapes of their own innocence and desire; confronting violence, estrangement, and the disillusionment of war; or encountering the hope, fierce integrity, defiance, and wisdom of others.

	Of wolves and men Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Resistance Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	Desert notes Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

	River notes : the dance of herons Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

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