National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez dead at 75
UPI News Service, 12/26/2020
National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez died Friday after a long struggle with prostate cancer, his family said. He was 75.
ADVERTISEMENT Lopez s work encompasses a range of genres and themes, from natural history studies to essays and short story collections.
Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, which drew on almost five years of research and travel in the arctic.
His most recent book, the 500-page Horizon, was released in 2019. The semi-autobiographical collection of essays reflects on the author s travels to more than 70 countries.
Far North writings of the Muries and words from the wild December 24, 2020 12:56pm Text size Copy shortlink:
• Margaret Murie, Two in the Far North
• Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska (John Burroughs Medal winner)
• Louise Murie cataloged then-Mount McKinley s vegetation, but it remains unpublished.
Quotable I want to be back again, with a loaded sled creaking its way over rough ice or running smoothly and quietly over level places, with a good team of dogs trotting steadily in front, muzzles low, tails waving high and the snow stretching away until broken by the blue line of woods where we might camp for the night. Olaus Murie in Journeys to the Far North (1973). I am testifying as an emotional woman and I would like to ask you, gentlemen, what s wrong with emotion? Beauty is a resource in and of itself. Alaska must be allowed to be Alaska, that is her greatest economy. I hope the United State