ABSTRACT
Barry Holstun Lopez was born January 6, 1945 in Port Chester, New York, a town near where his parents, Mary Frances Holstun Brennan and John Edward Brennan, resided in Mamaroneck, about 25 miles northeast of Manhattan. Lopez has been writing and publishing for over fifty years. His career as a magazine writer began in 1966, when he started writing for several Catholic magazines on the political left and for automotive magazines published by Adrian Lopez. Lopez received a National Book Award for Arctic Dreams in 1986 and a John Burroughs Award for Of Wolves and Men in 1979. Lopez's work continues to illuminate the environmental and cultural issues challenging the contemporary world and its inhabitants. He suggests that the term of "nature writing" is an inadequate and often inappropriate term for a kind of literature that addresses injustice and hierarchy.
