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Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. 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.〔 ==Biography== Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York〔Evans, Alice. "Leaning Into the Light: An Interview With Barry Lopez." ''Poets & Writers'' March/April 1994 (), pp 62-79.〕 and raised in Southern California and New York City.〔Shapiro, Michael. "The Big Rhythm: A Conversation with Barry Lopez on the McKenzie River." ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' Fall 2005 (), pp 583-610.〕 He attended the University of Notre Dame, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees there in 1966 and 1968. He also attended New York University and the University of Oregon.〔 His essays, short stories, reviews and opinion pieces began appearing in 1966.〔(Barry Lopez: An Inventory of His Papers (Part 1), 1964-2001 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library )〕 Until 1981, he was also a landscape photographer.〔Newell, Mike. ''No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez''. XOXOX Press: Ohio. 2008.〕 He regularly collaborates with other artists and writers and is active in national and international efforts toward reconciliation.〔(Barry Lopez official website )〕 He has traveled to nearly 80 countries〔(Profile at Key West Literary Seminar website )〕 and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club.〔Marquis. ''Who's Who in America 2008.'' Marquis Who's Who: Providence, NJ.〕 Lopez has been described as "the nation's premier nature writer" by the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. In his non-fiction, he frequently examines the relationship between human culture and physical landscape, while in his fiction he addresses issues of intimacy, ethics and identity. He has written introductions for and guest edited a number of books and anthologies, including ''Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape'', with Debra Gwartney, ''The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005'', and ''The Future of Nature''. In 2008, he guest edited two volumes of the journal ''Manoa'' with Frank Stewart, ''Maps of Reconciliation'' and ''Gates of Reconciliation''.〔(Manoa website )〕 Lopez along with Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin, was hailed in Mark Tredinnick's ''The Land's Wild Music'' (Trinity University Press, 2005) in which Tredinnick analyzed how the landscape nourished and developed Lopez's writing. An archive of Lopez's manuscripts and other work has been established at Texas Tech University, where he is the university's Visiting Distinguished Scholar.〔〔 Lopez lives near Finn Rock on the McKenzie River in western Oregon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barry Lopez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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