The Writer as Environmentalist and Activist

Barry Lopez, nature writer, essayist, short-story writer and international traveler, is the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. Among his other nonfiction books are About This Life and Of Wolves and Men. Lopez examines in his nonfiction the relationship between physical landscape and human culture. He is also the author of several award-winning works of fiction, including Field Notes, Winter Count, and a novella-length fable, Crow and Weasel. In another arena of work, he recently collaborated with E. O. Wilson in the design of a university curriculum that will combine the sciences and humanities in a new undergraduate major.