Barry Lopez, author who tied people to place, dies at 75 Barry Lopez, an award-winning writer who tried to tighten the bonds between people and place by describing the landscapes he saw in 50 years of travel, has diedEUGENE, Ore. -- Barry Lopez, an award-winning writer who tried to tighten the bonds between people and place by describing the landscapes he saw in 50 years of travel, has died. Lopez died in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday after a years-long struggle with prostate cancer, his family said. Longtime friend Kim Stafford, former Oregon poet laureate, said Lopez's books "are landmarks that define a region, a time, a cause. In “Horizon,” he wrote that in those formative years, he developed “a desire simply to go away. Woodruff said the essay possibly helped lead to “Horizon,” a book more than two decades in the making.

Source: ABC News December 26, 2020 22:30 UTC