Barry Holstun Lopez – 1945–

Lopez emerged in the 1970s as one of the nation’s most compelling writers on nature and the environment. Although works such as Of Wolves and Men (1978) and Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) confront the natural world on its own terms, they also develop natural history as an extended metaphor to illuminate human moral issues, including humankind’s role in the system of nature.