[5] 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.

In 2011, he received The de Grummond Medallion for "lifetime contribution to the field of children's and young adult literature.

He won a Telly Award in 2020 for excellence in video production in the Social Impact category.

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.

[3] All this builds on Barron's work decades earlier to help found the High Meadows Environmental Institute.

[9] Beyond his support of the Rhodes Scholarships and Princeton, T. A. Barron has worked to advance education and environmental protection.

Fellow writer Terry Tempest Williams has hailed him as the creator of "environmental fables for our time."

And writer Lloyd Alexander called his books "an intense and profoundly spiritual adventure."

[16] By October 2021, Michael Matthews was attached to direct it,[17] and Gil Netter was set as the film's producer.