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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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and leading environmentalist. In 1989 his boyhood home in Eastend, Saskatchewan, was restored by Eastend Arts Council as a residence for visiting artists and writers.
Jan 24, 2023 · How the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who grew up in rural Saskatchewan, fought to protect wild lands in the West from commercial progress. Learn about his memoir Wolf Willow, his Wilderness Letter and the grasslands conservation today.
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, 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...
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Wallace Stegner has 211 books on Goodreads with 356006 ratings. Wallace Stegner’s most popular book is Angle of Repose.
