Editing Barry Lopez

{{Short description|American writer (1945–2020)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}}{{Use American English|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox writer
| name               = Barry Lopez
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1945|01|06}}
| birth_place        = [[Port Chester, New York]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2020|12|25|1945|01|06}}
| death_place        = [[Eugene, Oregon]], U.S.
| alma_mater         = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]])
| notable_works      = ''Of Wolves and Men'' (1978)<br />''[[Arctic Dreams]]'' (1986)
}}
'''Barry Holstun Lopez''' (January 6, 1945&nbsp;– December 25, 2020) was an American author, [[List of essayists|essayist]], [[Nature writing|nature writer]], and [[fiction]] writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50&nbsp;years, he visited more than 80&nbsp;countries, and wrote extensively about a variety of landscapes including the [[Arctic|Arctic wilderness]], exploring the relationship between human cultures and nature. He won the [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]] for ''[[Arctic Dreams]]'' (1986) and his ''Of Wolves and Men'' (1978) was a National Book Award finalist.<ref name="natbook"/> He was a contributor to magazines including ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[National Geographic]]'', and ''[[The Paris Review]]''.

==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}}

== 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" />

==Bibliography==
===Fiction===
* {{Cite book|title=Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven|year=1976|publisher=[[Sheed and Ward|Sheed, Andrews & McMeel]]|isbn=0-8362-0661-4|pages=|oclc=2089496}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ackerman|first=Mary Ellen|date=1977|title=Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven by Barry Holstun Lopez|journal=[[Western Literature Association|Western American Literature]]|language=en|volume=12|issue=2|pages=166–168|doi=10.1353/wal.1977.0058|s2cid=165511052|issn=1948-7142}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America|publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing|Sheed Andrews and McMeel]]|year=1977|isbn=0-8362-0726-2|oclc=3433348|url=https://archive.org/details/givingbirthtothu00lope|url-access=registration}}<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hymes|first1=Dell H.|date=1979|title=Lopez, 'Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America' (Book Review)|journal=Western Humanities Review|volume=33|issue=1|page=73|id={{ProQuest|1291780352}}}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/rivernotesdanceo00barr|title=River Notes: The Dance of Herons|year=1979|publisher=Andrews and McMeel|isbn=0-8362-6106-2|oclc=5170658|url-access=registration}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barry-Lopez|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172244/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barry-Lopez|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/wintercount00lope|title=Winter Count|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]|year=1981|isbn=0-684-16817-0|oclc=7178782|url-access=registration}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winter Count|date=April 1, 1981|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/barry-holstun-lopez/winter-count/|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172145/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/barry-holstun-lopez/winter-count/|url-status=live}}</ref> Distinguished Recognition Award, Friends of American Writers<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fawchicago.org/awards.php|title=Friends of American Writers Chicago Literature Awards|website=www.fawchicago.org|access-date=March 6, 2014|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172144/http://www.fawchicago.org/awards.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Crow and Weasel|publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux|North Point Press]]|year=1990|isbn=0-86547-439-7|oclc=21118849}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Crow and Weasel|date=October 5, 1990|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/barry-lopez-2/crow-and-weasel/|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172146/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/barry-lopez-2/crow-and-weasel/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Parents' Choice Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=sclead;c=sclead;idno=umich-scl-pohrt;didno=umich-scl-pohrt;rgn=main;view=text|title=Tom Pohrt Archive (1980–2004, bulk 1990–2004)|first=Tom|last=Pohrt|website=quod.lib.umich.edu|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172148/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=sclead&c=sclead&idno=umich-scl-pohrt&didno=umich-scl-pohrt&rgn=main&view=text|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesgracen0000lope|url-access=registration|title=Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren|publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]]|year=1994|isbn=0-679-43453-4|oclc=29754729}} [[Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pnba.org/awards/1995BookAwards.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306053248/http://pnba.org/awards/1995BookAwards.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 1995 Book Awards|archivedate=March 6, 2014}}</ref> Critics' Choice Award<ref name="Newell, Mike 2008"/>
* {{Cite book|title=Lessons from the Wolverine|publisher=[[University of Georgia Press]]|year=1997|isbn=0-8203-1927-9|oclc=36165237}}<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Levin|first1=Martin|title=Of men and wolverines|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=October 11, 1997|page=D17|id={{ProQuest|384795652}} }}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories|publisher=[[Penguin Random House|Random House]]|year=2000|isbn=0-679-31076-2|oclc=43929944}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/light-action-in-the-caribbean/|title=Light Action in the Caribbean|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|date=November 8, 2000|language=en|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172157/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/light-action-in-the-caribbean/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Resistance|publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]]|year=2004|isbn=1-4000-4220-8|oclc=53477173}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/resistance-4/|title=Resistance|date=June 13, 2004|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172155/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/resistance-4/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Outside: Six Short Stories|publisher=[[Trinity University Press]]|year=2014|isbn=978-1-59534-189-1|oclc=855580539}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/outside-lopez/|title=Outside|date=March 8, 2014|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172150/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/outside-lopez/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Nonfiction===
* {{Cite book|title=Of Wolves and Men|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]|year=1978|isbn=0-684-15624-5|oclc=3843350|url=https://archive.org/details/ofwolvesmen00lope_0|url-access=registration}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Macdonald|first=David W.|date=April 1980|title=''Of Wolves and Men'', by Barry Lopez. Dent, £7.95. – ''Coyotes'': Biology, Behaviour and Management, edited by Marc Bekoff. Academic Press, £23.70.|journal=[[Oryx (journal)|Oryx]]|language=en|volume=15|issue=3|pages=296|doi=10.1017/S0030605300024765|issn=0030-6053|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[National Book Award]] finalist, [[John Burroughs Medal]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=JBA Medal Award List|url=https://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=research.amnh.org|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172149/https://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Christopher Medal,<ref name="authorsandartists" /> [[Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award]]''<ref name="authorsandartists" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Noble|first=Barnes &|title=John Burroughs Medal, Science & Nature Awards, Books|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/science-nature-awards/john-burroughs-medal/_/N-29Z8q8Z1xb1|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=Barnes & Noble|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172151/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/science-nature-awards/john-burroughs-medal/_/N-29Z8q8Z1xb1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Commencement Ceremony Features Author Barry Lopez|url=https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1202-commencement-ceremony-features-author-barry-lopez?preview=1|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=www.coa.edu|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172155/https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1202-commencement-ceremony-features-author-barry-lopez?preview=1|url-status=live}}</ref>''
* {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/arcticdreamsimag00lope_1|title=Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape|publisher=Scribner|year=1986|isbn=978-0-375-72748-1|oclc=48071476|url-access=registration}}<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hoagland|first=Edward|author-link=Edward Hoagland|date=February 16, 1986|title=From the Land Where Polar Bears Fly|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/books/from-the-land-where-polar-bears-fly.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172150/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/books/from-the-land-where-polar-bears-fly.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[National Book Award]],<ref name="natbook"/> National Book Critics Circle Award finalist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards |title=National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists |access-date=March 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/ |archive-date=October 18, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Crossing Open Ground|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1989|isbn=0-679-72183-5|oclc=18987292}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Aton|first=Jim|date=1988|title= ''Crossing Open Ground'' by Barry Lopez (review) |journal=[[Western Literature Association|Western American Literature]]|language=en|volume=23|issue=3|pages=285–286|doi=10.1353/wal.1988.0115|s2cid=165754150|issn=1948-7142}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=The Rediscovery of North America|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1992|isbn=0-679-74099-6|oclc=25788222}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McIvor|first=D. E.|date=1993|title=''The Rediscovery of North America'' by Barry Lopez (review) |journal=[[Western Literature Association|Western American Literature]]|language=en|volume=27|issue=4|pages=379|doi=10.1353/wal.1993.0119|s2cid=165261722|issn=1948-7142}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory|publisher=Random House|year=1998|isbn=0-679-30944-6|oclc=38757150}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Flower|first=Dean|date=1999|title=Nature Does Not Exist for Us|journal=[[The Hudson Review]]|volume=52|issue=2|pages=305–312|doi=10.2307/3853424|jstor=3853424}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Apologia|publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=1998|isbn=0-8203-2004-8|oclc=37820073}}<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Burnside|first1=John|author-link=John Burnside|title=The beauty of roadkill|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/06/beauty-roadkill|access-date=December 27, 2020|work=[[New Statesman]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172218/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/06/beauty-roadkill|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=Patriotism and the American Land: Essays|author1=Richard K. Nelson|author2= Barry Holstun Lopez|author3= Terry Tempest Williams|publisher=Orion Society|date=2002|isbn=9780913098615}}
* {{Cite book|title=Horizon|publisher=Penguin Random House|year=2019|isbn=978-0-307-35599-7|oclc=1077254235}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/horizon-lopez/|title=Horizon by Barry Lopez|language=en|access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172245/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barry-lopez/horizon-lopez/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=MacFarlane|first1=Robert|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|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172206/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/14/horizon-by-barry-lopez-review|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Klinkenborg|first=Verlyn|author-link=Verlyn Klinkenborg|title=The Voice of the Landscape|language=en|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/09/26/barry-lopez-voice-landscape/|access-date=December 27, 2020|work=[[The New York Review of Books]]|issn=0028-7504|date=September 26, 2019|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172242/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/09/26/barry-lopez-voice-landscape/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Burnett|first1=Elizabeth-Jane|title=Horizon by Barry Lopez book review|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/horizon-barry-lopez-review-elizabeth-jane-burnett/|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=[[The Times Literary Supplement]]|language=en-GB|date=March 20, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172159/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/horizon-barry-lopez-review-elizabeth-jane-burnett/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World|date=2022|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0593242827}} Introduction by [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/review/barry-lopez-embrace-fearlessly-burning-world.html|work=New York Times|date=May 31, 2022|first= Ben|last= Ehrenreich|title=Barry Lopez Urged Us to Pay Attention to a Burning World|access-date=June 1, 2022}} </ref>

===Anthology===
* {{Cite book|title=Vintage Lopez|publisher=Vintage Books|year=2004|isbn=1-4000-3398-5|oclc=52410107}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lopez, Barry Holstun|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52410107|title=Vintage Lopez|date=2004|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=1-4000-3398-5|oclc=52410107|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172157/https://www.worldcat.org/title/vintage-lopez/oclc/52410107|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Edited volumes===
* {{Cite book|title=Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape|publisher=Trinity University Press|year=2006|isbn=1-59534-024-6|oclc=70167626}}<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Robert|date=December 3, 2006|title=A Landscape of Words|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/Sullivan.t.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172212/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/Sullivan.t.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine|publisher=[[Milkweed Editions]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-57131-306-5|oclc=141187889}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/141187889|title=The future of nature: writing on a human ecology from Orion magazine|date=2007|publisher=Milkweed Editions|editor=Lopez, Barry |isbn=978-1-57131-306-5|edition=1st|location=Minneapolis, Minn.|oclc=141187889|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172158/https://www.worldcat.org/title/future-of-nature-writing-on-a-human-ecology-from-orion-magazine/oclc/141187889|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
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*[[National Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite news|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/20201227172157/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/barry-lopez-award-winning-arctic-dreams-author-has-died-aged-75|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="natbook">{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/barry-lopez/|access-date=December 27, 2020|publisher=[[National Book Foundation]]|language=en-US|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172210/https://www.nationalbook.org/people/barry-lopez/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Award in Literature, [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref name="gugg" />
* [[Lannan Literary Awards|Lannan Literary Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez|url=https://lannan.org/bios/barry-lopez|access-date=December 27, 2020|publisher=[[Lannan Literary Awards|Lannan Foundation]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172248/https://lannan.org/bios/barry-lopez|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref name="gugg">{{Cite web|title=Barry Lopez|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/barry-lopez/|access-date=December 27, 2020|language=en-US|publisher=[[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Foundation]]}}</ref>
* [[John Burroughs Medal]]<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Schaub|first1=Michael|date=December 23, 2020|title=Barry Lopez Wins 'Writer in the World' Prize|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/barry-lopez-wins-writer-in-the-world-prize/|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172205/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/barry-lopez-wins-writer-in-the-world-prize/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Two [[Pushcart Prize]]s<ref>{{Cite news|last1=McCurdy|first1=Christen|date=December 26, 2020|title=National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez dead at 75|url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2020/12/26/National-Book-Award-winning-author-Barry-Lopez-dead-at-75/4841609010979/|access-date=December 27, 2020|publisher=[[United Press International]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172202/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2020/12/26/National-Book-Award-winning-author-Barry-Lopez-dead-at-75/4841609010979/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[National Science Foundation]] Fellowship<ref name="utaustin">{{Cite web|date=July 25, 2017|title=Barry Lopez Awarded UT Austin's Dobie Paisano International Residency Prize|url=https://news.utexas.edu/2017/07/25/barry-lopez-awarded-ut-austins-dobie-paisano-residency/|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=UT News|publisher=[[University of Texas at Austin]]|language=en-US|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172202/https://news.utexas.edu/2017/07/25/barry-lopez-awarded-ut-austins-dobie-paisano-residency/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop)|MacDowell Colony]] Residency Fellowship<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tydeman|first=William E.|title=Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination|date=August 26, 2013|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|isbn=978-0-8061-5048-2|language=en|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=PRSRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 9]}}</ref>
* Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award<ref>{{Cite news|last=Novak|first=Theresa|title=Literary masters get set to shine|url=https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/literary-masters-get-set-to-shine/article_ff77c128-3bb0-11e3-91ca-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=December 27, 2020|work=[[Corvallis Gazette-Times]]|language=en|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172209/https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/literary-masters-get-set-to-shine/article_ff77c128-3bb0-11e3-91ca-0019bb2963f4.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Elected Fellow of [[the Explorers Club]]<ref name="utaustin" />
* [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] from [[Whittier College]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary|title=Honorary Degrees|website=www.whittier.edu|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-date=September 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910152705/https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary|url-status=live}}</ref>
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== Personal life ==
Lopez's first marriage to Sandra Landers in 1967 ended in a divorce in 1998. He married Debra Gwartney in 2007.<ref name=":0" /> After the property surrounding their long-term home near [[Finn Rock, Oregon|Finn Rock]] on the [[McKenzie River (Oregon)|McKenzie River]] in western [[Oregon]] was burned in the 2020 [[2020 Oregon wildfires|Holiday Farm Fire]], the couple moved temporarily to [[Eugene, Oregon]].<ref name="EW">{{cite news|last=Wadsworth|first=Lois|date=April 25, 2002|title=Between Two Worlds|work=[[Eugene Weekly]]|url=http://www2.eugeneweekly.com/2002/04_25_02/special.html|url-status=dead|access-date=May 6, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070617003952/http://www2.eugeneweekly.com/2002/04_25_02/special.html|archive-date=June 17, 2007}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Lopez died on December 25, 2020, from complications of [[prostate cancer]], in Eugene, Oregon.<ref name="lopez obit npr">{{cite web|last=Blanchard|first=Dave|date=December 26, 2020|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 26, 2020|publisher=NPR|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172202/https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/948863127/barry-lopez-acclaimed-author-and-traveler-beyond-many-horizons-dies-at-75|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{Cite book|last1=McClintock|first1=James I.|url=https://archive.org/details/natureskindredsp00mccl|url-access=registration|title=Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder|year=1994|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]|isbn=978-0-299-14173-8|oclc=550516714}}
*{{Cite book|last1=Slovic|first1=Scott|url=https://archive.org/details/seekingawareness00slov_0|url-access=registration|title=Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez|year=1992|publisher=[[University of Utah Press]]|isbn=0-585-10655-X|oclc=43475967}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book|last1=Newell|first1=Mike|title=No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez|year=2008|publisher=XOXOX Press|isbn=978-1-880977-07-1|oclc=181335874}}
* {{Cite book|last1=O'Connell|first1=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas O'Connell|title=At the Field's End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers|year=1998|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|isbn=0-295-97723-X|oclc=39478063|url=https://archive.org/details/atfieldsendinter00ocon|url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite book|last1=O'Connell|first1=Nicholas|title=On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature|date=2015|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-99478-9|oclc=911591750}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Tydeman|first1=William E.|title=Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination|isbn=978-0-8061-4407-8|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|oclc=841557756|year=2013}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Warren|first1=James Perrin|title=Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists|date=2015|publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]]|isbn=978-0-8165-3232-2|oclc=933516717}}
* {{cite news|last1=Wang|first1=Amy|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2020/12/barry-lopez-award-winning-and-influential-oregon-author-dies-at-75.html|title=Barry Lopez, award-winning and influential Oregon author, dies at 75|work=[[The Oregonian]]|date=December 26, 2020}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Wild|first1=Peter|author-link=Peter Wild|title=Barry Lopez|date=1984|publisher=Boise State University Press|isbn=0-88430-038-2|oclc=10984800}}

==External links==
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{{Archival records}}
* {{Official website}}
* {{C-SPAN}}
* {{Discogs artist}}
* [https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04302010/transcript3.html Interview] with [[Bill Moyers]]
* [https://www.npr.org/2013/01/10/168964002/in-sliver-of-sky-barry-lopez-confronts-childhood-sexual-abuse Interview] with [[Terry Gross]]
*[https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/p17208coll5/id/65559/rec/3 Interview with Barry Lopez] about the adaptation of '''''Crow and Weasel''''' for the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, ''ALL ABOUT KIDS!'' TV Series #157 (1994)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbnlWa8aZ7I Interview with Barry Lopez], ''A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour'' TV Series, Episode #34 (1993)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxos-Ufq3Yk&t=532s Interview with Barry Lopez], ''A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour'' TV Series, Episode #108 (1994)

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