Editing Barry Lopez (section)

== Career and works ==
Lopez's essays, short stories, reviews and opinion pieces began to appear in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tturb/00161/trb-00161p1.html#series5|title=Barry Lopez: An Inventory of His Papers (Part 1), 1964–2001 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library|url-status=dead|access-date=July 7, 2008|archive-date=August 29, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829205227/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tturb/00161/trb-00161p1.html#series5}}</ref>  In his career of over 50 years, he traveled to over 80 countries, writing extensively about distant and exotic landscapes including the Arctic wilderness, exploring the relationships between human cultures and wild nature.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez|url=https://www.kwls.org/authors/barry-lopez/|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172133/https://www.kwls.org/authors/barry-lopez/|url-status=live}}</ref> Through his works, he also highlighted the harm caused by human actions on nature.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lopez|first=Barry|title=Barry Lopez, Acclaimed Author And Traveler Beyond Many Horizons, Dies At 75|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/948863127/barry-lopez-acclaimed-author-and-traveler-beyond-many-horizons-dies-at-75|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=NPR.org|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172156/https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/948863127/barry-lopez-acclaimed-author-and-traveler-beyond-many-horizons-dies-at-75|url-status=live}}</ref>  He was a [[contributing editor]] of ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' and a contributor to many magazines including ''[[National Geographic]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', and [[Outside (magazine)|''Outside'']].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez's Horizon is a masterpiece of a reminder to do better|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/barry-lopezs-horizon-is-a-masterpiece-of-a-reminder-to-do-better|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=vancouversun|language=en-CA}}</ref> Until 1981, he was also a landscape photographer.<ref name="Newell, Mike 2008">{{Cite book|last=Newell|first=Mike|title=No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez|date=2008|publisher=XOXOX Press|isbn=978-1-880977-07-1|location=|pages=20|oclc=181335874}}</ref> In 2002, he was elected a fellow of [[The Explorers Club]].<ref name="Marquis. 2008">{{Cite book|title=Who's Who in America, 2009|date=2008|publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]]|volume=1|page=[[iarchive:whoswhoiname200901marq/page/3025/mode/1up|3026]]|language=en|oclc=1036970200}}</ref>

''[[Arctic Dreams]]'' (1986) describes five years in the [[Northern Canada|Canadian Arctic]], where Lopez worked as a biologist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=December 27, 2020|title=Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/barry-lopez-dead.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/barry-lopez-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="macfarlane2005">{{Cite news|last=Macfarlane|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Macfarlane (writer)|date=April 2, 2005|title=Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview35|access-date=December 27, 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172219/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview35|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robert Macfarlane (writer)|Robert Macfarlane]], reviewing the book in ''[[The Guardian]]'', describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness".<ref name="macfarlane2005"/> In ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Michiko Kakutani]] argued that ''Arctic Dreams'' "is a book about the Arctic North in the way that ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' is a novel about whales".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|author-link=Michiko Kakutani|date=February 12, 1986|title=Books of the Times|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/books/books-of-the-times-339886.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/books/books-of-the-times-339886.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

A number of Lopez's works, including ''Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter'' (1978), make use of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] legends, including characters such as [[Coyote (mythology)|Coyote]].<ref name="authorsandartists">{{Cite web|title=Lopez, Barry|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/lopez-barry|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=Authors and Artists for Young Adults|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172217/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/lopez-barry|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Crow and Weasel'' (1990) thematizes the importance of [[metaphor]], which Lopez described in an interview as one of the definitive "passion[s]" of humanity.{{Sfn|Slovic|1992|p=142}}

James I. McClintock describes Lopez as an admirer of [[Wendell Berry]].{{sfn|McClintock|1994|p=141}} McClintock further observes, referring to ''Arctic Dreams'', that Lopez "conjoin[s] ecological science and romantic insight".{{sfn|McClintock|1994|p=143}} Slovic identifies "careful [[Narrative structure|structure]], [[Phonaesthetics|euphony]], and an abundance of particular details" as central characteristics of Lopez's work.{{Sfn|Slovic|1992|p=143}}

His final work published during his lifetime was ''[[Horizon (book)|Horizon]]'' (2019), an autobiographical telling of his travels over his lifetime.<ref>{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|date=December 27, 2020|title=Barry Lopez, award-winning Arctic Dreams author, has died aged 75|url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/barry-lopez-award-winning-arctic-dreams-author-has-died-aged-75|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172141/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/barry-lopez-award-winning-arctic-dreams-author-has-died-aged-75|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' describes the book as "a contemporary epic, at once pained and urgent, personal and oracular".<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 14, 2019|title=Horizon by Barry Lopez review – magnificent on the natural world, and furious too|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/14/horizon-by-barry-lopez-review|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172235/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/14/horizon-by-barry-lopez-review|url-status=live}}</ref> A collection of essays, some of which had previously been published and others of which were new to the public, was published posthumously by [[Penguin Random House]] under the title ''Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World'' (2022), with an introduction by [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672448/embrace-fearlessly-the-burning-world-by-barry-lopez/ </ref>

An archive of Lopez's manuscripts and other work has been established at [[Texas Tech University]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World|url=http://www.swco.ttu.edu/Sowell/SowellCollectionSWC.php|access-date=April 11, 2012|publisher=Swco.ttu.edu|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172147/https://swco.ttu.edu/Sowell/SowellCollectionSWC.php|url-status=live}}</ref> where he was the university's Visiting Distinguished Scholar.<ref name="Marquis. 2008" /><ref name="Lopez">{{Cite web|url=http://www.barrylopez.com/disc.htm|title=Barry Lopez – News|website=www.barrylopez.com|access-date=July 7, 2008|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172210/http://www.barrylopez.com/disc.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He also taught at universities including [[Columbia University]], [[Eastern Washington University]], [[University of Iowa]], and [[Carleton College|Carleton College, Minnesota]].<ref name=":0" />