...animals and places he's encountered, is he a nature writer? Use the phrase "nature writer" in a conversation with Barry Lopez, and...page.) "Arguably the nation's premier nature writer," the San Francisco Chronicle calls Lopez...

...the combined skills and knowledge of a biologist and a nature writer. Born in 1907, she had grown up on a farm in Pennsylvania...time when women biologists were rare. As a full-time nature writer in the 1950s, she had written three best-sellers...

...in this chair at this desk for four years and that's just way too much time indoors,'' he explained. ''As a nature writer, my work is to be out in the places I love.'' Nelson said he thinks the most important writing in Alaska now is...