Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)
Author of Angle of Repose
About the Author
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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Wallace Stegner
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) 785 copies
The American West: The magazine of the Western History Association, Volume V, No. 6, November 1968 3 copies
The American West: The Magazine of the Western History Association, July 1968/Volume V, Number 4 3 copies
Two Rivers 3 copies
FIRE AND ICE 2 copies
Angle Of Repose Part 1 Of 2 2 copies
The Effective Theme 2 copies
Carrion Spring [short story] 2 copies
Montana Stories 1 copy
Αμερικανική Λογοτεχνία 1 copy
Memo to the Mountain Lion 1 copy
Associated Works
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) — Introduction, some editions — 698 copies
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — some editions — 490 copies
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Contributor — 463 copies
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Contributor — 257 copies
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contributor — 188 copies
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 134 copies
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributor — 132 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 81 copies
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contributor — 55 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contributor — 27 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Contributor — 10 copies
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Contributor — 7 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contributor — 5 copies
Ansel Adams - Letters & Images 1916-1984 — Foreword — 2 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Vol. 6, No. 3&4 (Autumn-Winter 1971) (1971) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Birthdate
- 1909-02-18
- Date of death
- 1993-04-13
- Burial location
- Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vermont, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
- Place of death
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Cause of death
- respiratory failure
- Places of residence
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Great Falls, Montana, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Saskatchewan, Canada
Los Altos Hills, California, USA - Education
- University of Utah (BA ∙ 1930)
State University of Iowa (MA ∙ 1932)
State University of Iowa (PhD ∙ 1935)
University of California - Occupations
- professor
historian
novelist
essayist - Relationships
- Stegner, Page (son)
Stegner, Mary (wife) - Organizations
- Stanford University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harvard University
University of Utah
Augusta College
Sierra Club (show all 9)
University of Toronto
American Academy in Rome
National Parks Advisory Board - Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize (1972)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1969)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)
American Antiquarian Society (1985)
Robert Kirsch Award (1980)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1974) (show all 16)
Fellow, Utah State Historical Society
O. Henry Award (1942, 1950, 1954)
National Book Award (1977)
Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (1968)
Blackhawk Award (1963)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1972)
Fublright Fellowship (1962, 1968)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1950, 1952, 1960)
Rockefeller Fellowship (1950-51)
Phi Beta Kappa - Short biography
- Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
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Wallace Stegner: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (August 2015)
Group Read: Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings..... in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (October 2010)
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Statistics
- Works
- 84
- Also by
- 50
- Members
- 18,699
- Popularity
- #1,171
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 524
- ISBNs
- 333
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 118