Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature

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University of Utah Press, 1990 - History - 207 pages
A revised edition with an extended new interview illuminating Stegner's reactions to the changes that flooded over the American West in the 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Contents

The Early Works21
21
The Big Rock Candy Mountain41
41
The Later Works65
65
Copyright

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Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
Wallace Stegner,Richard W. Etulain
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Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
Wallace Stegner,Richard W. Etulain
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About the author (1990)

In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian; he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. The house Stegner lived in from age 7 to 12 in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists; the Wallace Stegner Grant For The Arts offers a grant of $500 and free residency at the house for the month of October for published Canadian writers. Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, from a car accident on March 28, 1993.

Bibliographic information

TitleConversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
AuthorsWallace Stegner, Richard W. Etulain
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherUniversity of Utah Press, 1990
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 13, 2008
ISBN0874803535, 9780874803532
Length207 pages
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History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Literary Criticism / American / General
  
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