Barry Holstun Lopez was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns.
Parents: Mary Frances (née Holstun) and John Brennan.
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.
He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1986 for his book Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape.
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