Barry lopez biography
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Spring , Volume
Conversation
David Thomas Sumner
Nature Writing, American Literature, and the Idea of Community—A Conversation with Barry Lopez
David Thomas Sumner (Ph.D., University of Oregon) teaches in the English Department at Weber State University. His essays have appeared in Ecocomposition (SUNY Press, ) and In Our Own Voice (Allyn & Bacon, ). He fryst vatten also contributing editor for The Shape of Reason (Allyn & Bacon, ). Sumner fryst vatten currently working on a rhetorical study of American nature writing and its connection to environmental ethics.
Widely respected as a naturalist and writer, Barry Lopez is a major röst in American letters. He is the author of several volumes of fiction and nonfiction including River Notes, Desert Notes, Lessons from the Wolverine, Of Wolves and Men, Arctic Dreams, and most recently Light Action in the Caribbean. Lopez has received the prestigious John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writin • INTRODUCTION Barry Lopez is one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers about human beings and their place on this planet. Few writers have thought more deeply about that relationship or have written more powerfully and eloquently about it. The stories and meditations in his expansive new book Horizon (forthcoming in March from Knopf), as well as in such previous writings as Arctic Dreams () and Resistance (), contain urgent messages for our time. Barry and I have been friends since when he first visited my school, Southern Utah University, to speak; an interview I conducted with him at that time appeared in Western American Literature in Barry made a return trip to Cedar City to speak again and to work with my students in a class on American nature writing, and we spent a week together talking about books, landscape, animals, indigenous people, and writing. We have stayed in touch ever since. This conv • American writer (–) Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, &#;– December 25, ) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50&#;years, he visited more than 80&#;countries, and wrote extensively about a variety of landscapes including the Arctic wilderness, exploring the relationship between human cultures and nature. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams () and his Of Wolves and Men () was a National Book Award finalist.[1] He was a contributor to magazines including Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and The Paris Review. Lopez was born Barry Holstun Brennan on January 6, , in Port Chester, New York,[2][3] to Mary Frances (née Holstun) and John Brennan. His family moved to Reseda, California after the birth of his brother, Dennis, in He attended grade school at O The Goal Now Has to Be to Listen: An Interview with Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez
Early life
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