Editing Barry Lopez (section)

==Early life==
Lopez was born Barry Holstun Brennan on January 6, 1945, in [[Port Chester, New York]],<ref name="Evans, Alice pp 62-79">{{cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Alice|title=Leaning into the Light: An Interview with Barry Lopez|journal=[[Poets & Writers]]|volume=22|issue=2|pages=62–79|date=March 1994|id={{ProQuest|1311697040}} }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> to Mary Frances (née Holstun) and John Brennan. His family moved to [[Reseda, Los Angeles|Reseda, California]] after the birth of his brother, Dennis, in 1948. He attended grade school at [[Our Lady of Grace (Encino)|Our Lady of Grace]] during this time.<ref name="TydemanLopez">{{cite book|last1=Tydeman|first1=William|title=Conversations with Barry Lopez|date=2013|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806150482|page=3}}</ref>  His parents divorced in 1950, after which his mother married Adrian Bernard Lopez, a businessman, in 1955. Adrian Lopez adopted Barry and his brother, and they both took his surname.<ref name=":0" /> Barry Lopez experienced years of [[sexual abuse]] as the victim of a serial child molester posing as a doctor who went by the name Harry Shier.<ref name="NYT 2022-05-31">{{Cite news |last=Ehrenreich |first=Ben |date=2022-05-31 |title=Barry Lopez Urged Us to Pay Attention to a Burning World |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/review/barry-lopez-embrace-fearlessly-burning-world.html |access-date=2022-06-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Lopez |first1=Barry |title=Sliver of Sky |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2013/01/sliver-of-sky/ |magazine=Harper's Magazine |date=January 2013 |access-date=28 March 2023}}</ref>

When Lopez was 11, his family relocated to [[Manhattan]], where he attended the [[Loyola School (New York City)|Loyola School]], graduating in 1962.<ref name=":0" /> As a young man, Lopez considered becoming a Catholic priest or a [[Trappists|Trappist]] monk<ref name=":0" /> before attending the [[University of Notre Dame]], earning undergraduate and graduate degrees there in 1966 and 1968.<ref name=":0" /> He also attended [[New York University]] and the [[University of Oregon]].<ref name="Evans, Alice pp 62-79" /> Although he drifted away from [[Catholicism]], daily prayer remained important to him as a continuous, respectful attendance to the [[presence of the Divine]].{{r|NYT 2022-05-31}}