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Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner says he "lived in twenty places in eight states and Canada". [4] He was the son of Hilda (née Paulson) and George Stegner.
Wallace Stegner was an American author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the western United States. All his writings are informed by a deep sense of the American experience and the potential, which he termed “the geography of promise,” that the West symbolizes.
Jun 1, 2020 · The mythic West! One reason to read Wallace Stegner is to learn to appreciate that those remembered creatures flourished not in Paris or Greenwich Village, but in Salt Lake City.
Jun 1, 2022 · For years, troubling charges—appropriation, plagiarism—have hovered over Wallace Stegner’s famous novel, “Angle of Repose,” the story of a mining engineer and his wife living in the ...
Wallace Stegner Biography. Wallace Stegner once said about his writing, "In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth." Stegner's prose has inspired generations of Americans to seek their own truth.
Apr 15, 1993 · Wallace Stegner, the novelist and short-story writer whose work celebrated the American West and won him the country's highest literary awards, died on Tuesday night at St. Vincent...
Apr 13, 1993 · Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. ...more.
May 18, 2008 · Wallace Stegner taught writing students whose names have come to constitute a virtual hall of fame of American letters (Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and...
On April 13, 1993, Wallace Earle Stegner died in a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico, two weeks after a terrible car accident. Aged 84, he was celebrated as one of America’s greatest novelists and essayists, the “Dean of Western Writers.”
Jan 24, 2023 · American writer Wallace Stegner fought hard to protect the land and resources in the Wild West. But he had crucial blind spots about the history of Indigenous people.
