OUTDOOR LITERATURE -- Barry Lopez, one of America's premier nature writers, will give Spokane Community College’s first 2013-14 President Speakers Series lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Lair-Student Center auditorium, Bldg. 6. The college is at 1810 N. Greene St.

Topics for his free presentation include sustainability from a global perspective and ways writing and environmental concerns intersect.

Lopez won the National Book Award for “Artic Dreams,” a study of the Far North, its terrain, wildlife and history of the Eskimo and the region’s explorers. Other nonfiction works include “About this Life” and  “Of Wolves and Men,” a National Book Award finalist. Lopez’ fiction works include “Field Notes,” “Winter Count” and the novella, “Crow and Weasel.” He also has written for The New York Times Magazine,d Harper’s and National Geographic.

Lopez has been honored with Association of American Geographers’ 2011 Honorary Geographer Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Literature Award and the John Burroughs and John Hay Medals.