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Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". [1] He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 [2] and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
Apr 23, 2024 · 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 · In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times, considers Wallace Stegner, the Western novelist who...
Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. Over a 60 year career he wrote 30 books. Among the novels are, The Big Rock Candy Mountain , 1943; Joe Hill , 1950; All The Little Live Things , 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); Angle of Repose , 1972 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird , (National Book Award), 1977 ...
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 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.
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 Hospital in...
May 18, 2008 · Through his multiple legacies, Wallace Stegner remains the emeritus authority on the American West. He was of the region, but he also ventured beyond its borders.
Apr 15, 1993 · Wallace Stegner, the novelist whose sense of the land and the rootlessness of the West filled his books as well as his life, has died in Santa Fe, N.M., of injuries suffered in a car accident.
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.
