Barry Holstun Lopez

Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American essayist, poet, fiction writer and prose stylist whose work is best known for its ecological concerns.

He began attending the University of Notre Dame in 1966 and earned a graduate degree there in 1968. He went on to further graduate study at the University of Oregon (1969-1970). Lopez has been described as “the nation’s premier nature writer” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Frequently compared with Henry David Thoreau, Lopez’s non-fiction writing closely dissects the relationship between human culture and physical landscape, while his fiction addresses issues of intimacy, ethics and identity.

Bibliography

Fiction

• (1976)
• Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter (1977)
• (1979)
• Winter Count (1981)
• Crossing Open Ground (1989)
• Crow and Weasel (1990)
• (1994)
• Light Action in the Caribbean, 2003
• Resistance, 2005

Non-fiction

• Of Wolves and Men (1978), National Book Award finalist
• (1986) National Book Award winner
• Crossing Open Ground (1989)
• The Rediscovery of North America (1991)
• (1998)
• Vintage Lopez, 2004
• 2005 Best American Spiritual Writing (Introduction)

His writing has appeared in Outside, Harper's, Orion, Granta, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Manoa, Best American Essays, Best Spiritual Writing, and the “best” collections from National Geographic.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

• Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• John Hay Medal
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Lannan award
• National Science Foundation fellowship
• Pushcart Prize

Interviews

1986 and 1989 audio interviews with Barry Lopez by Don Swaim

External links

• Official home page

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