To support the experience of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, he created the Travel Program for Environmental Stewardship, which enables young leaders from around the world to visit inspiring wilderness regions like Patagonia. He won a Telly Award in 2020 for excellence in video production in the Social Impact category. He has produced a documentary film, “Dream Big”, as well as several highly acclaimed videos that honor extraordinary young people of diverse backgrounds for his Inspiring Young Heroes website. In 2001, he founded a national prize to celebrate outstanding young people, who help other people or the environment-the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes (named after his mother). He is actively involved with environmental and conservation organizations, including The Wilderness Society, Earthjustice, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and Colorado Open Lands. In 2011, he received The de Grummond Medallion for 'lifetime contribution to the field of children's and young adult literature.' He has also won the Nautilus Award Grand Prize, and many other literary awards. Since then, he has written more than thirty novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and nature books. He served as president of a private equity firm in New York City before changing careers in 1990, when he returned to Colorado with his wife, Currie, and their children to become a full-time writer and conservationist. To further his education, he spent a year traveling with his backpack around Europe, Asia, and Africa. He also has business and law degrees from Harvard University. He studied history and politics at Princeton University, where he was a Trustee, before he won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University. Barron's writing reflects his great passion for nature and the spiritual values of the natural world, as well as his belief in the power of every person. His family moved to Colorado and he spent much of his youth on a ranch in the Rocky Mountains. Thomas Archibald Barron (born March 26, 1952) is an American writer of fantasy literature, books for children and young adults, and nature books.īarron spent his early childhood in Harvard, Massachusetts, a town full of apple orchards and New England history (including the childhood home of Louisa May Alcott).

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