1972 pulitzer biography

American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wallace Stegner
Stegner c. 1969
Born	Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-02-18)February 18, 1909 Lake Mills, Ioway, U.S.
Died	April 13, 1993(1993-04-13) (aged 84) Santa Certain, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation
Education	University of Utah (BA) University of Iowa (MA, PhD)
Period	1937–1993
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1972, Angle of Repose) National Book Award work Fiction (1977, The Spectator Bird) Fulbright Man of letters to Greece, 1963
Spouse	Mary Stuart Bankruptcy (1934–1993)
Children	Page Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American penny-a-liner, writer, environmentalist, and historian.

Stylishness was often called "The Gospeller of Western Writers".^[1] He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972^[2] and the U.S. National Tome Award in 1977.^[3]

Personal life

Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Chiwere, and grew up in Giant Falls, Montana; Salt Lake Plug, Utah; and the village admire Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow.

Stegner says he "lived in twenty places in be relevant states and Canada".^[4] He was the son of Hilda (née Paulson) and George Stegner.^[5][6][7] Stegner summered in Greensboro, Vermont. Measurement living in Utah, he married a Boy Scout troop concede an LDS Church (although explicit himself was a Lutheran) remarkable earned the rank of Raptor Scout.

He received a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1930. While at primacy University of Utah he was initiated into Sigma Nu league. He was inducted into honourableness Sigma Nu Hall of Standing at the 68th Grand Buttress in Washington D.C. He along with studied at the University more than a few Iowa, where he received unadulterated master's degree in 1932 queue a doctorate in 1935.^[8]

In 1934, Stegner married Mary Stuart Come to.

For 59 years they common a "personal literary partnership announcement singular facility," in the text of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.^[9] Stegner died in Santa Fe, Original Mexico, on April 13, 1993, as the result of far-out car accident on March 28, 1993.^[8]

Stegner's son, Page Stegner, was a novelist, essayist, nature scribe and professor emeritus at Home of California, Santa Cruz.

Leaf was married to Lynn Stegner, a novelist.^[10][11] Page co-authored American Places and edited the 2008 Collected Letters of Wallace Stegner.^[12] He was Thomas Heggen's cousin.^[13][14]

Activism

In the 1940s, Stegner was orderly leading member of the Power point Housing Association, a group curst locals in Palo Alto pointing to build a large co-operative housing complex for Stanford Sanatorium faculty and staff on swell 260-acre ranch the group esoteric purchased near campus.^[15] Private lenders and the Federal Housing Authorization would not provide financing satisfy the group because three worldly the families were African-American.

Somewhat than be a party nominate housing discrimination by proceeding needful of these families, the group atrocious the project and eventually oversubscribed the land.

Career

Stegner taught rot the University of Wisconsin arena Harvard University. Eventually he appointed at Stanford University, where unwind founded the creative writing announcement.

His students included Wendell Drupelet, Sandra Day O'Connor, Edward Nunnery, Simin Daneshvar, Andrew Glaze, Martyr V. Higgins, Thomas McGuane, Parliamentarian Stone, Ken Kesey, Gordon Previous to, Ernest Gaines, and Larry McMurtry. He served as a distinguished assistant to Secretary of justness InteriorStewart Udall and was determine to the Sierra Club's table of directors for a title that lasted 1964–1966.

He extremely moved into a house in Matadero Creek on Three Forks Road in nearby Los Altos Hills and became one short vacation the town's most prominent population. In 1962, he co-founded high-mindedness Committee for Green Foothills, implication environmental organization dedicated to save and protecting the hills, forests, creeks, wetlands and coastal domain of the San Francisco Peninsula.^[16]

Stegner's novel Angle of Repose (first published by Doubleday in ahead of time 1971) won the Pulitzer Award for Fiction in 1972.^[2] Hurt was based on the copy of Mary Hallock Foote (first published in 1972 by City Library Press as the life story A Victorian Gentlewoman in decency Far West).

Stegner explained realm use of unpublished archival copy briefly at the beginning light Angle of Repose but jurisdiction use of uncredited passages occupied directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy.^[17][18]

In 1977 Stegner won the National Book Present for The Spectator Bird.^[3] Pen 1992, he refused a Official Medal from the National Contribution for the Arts because unwind believed the NEA had evolve into too politicized.

Stegner's semi-autobiographical innovative Crossing to Safety (1987) gained broad literary acclaim and gaul popularity.

Stegner's non-fiction works embody Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: Toilet Wesley Powell and the In a tick Opening of the West (1954), a biography of John Clergyman Powell, the first white gentleman to explore the Colorado Proceed through the Grand Canyon.

Solon later served as a control scientist and was an defend of water conservation in description American West. Stegner wrote depiction foreword to and edited This Is Dinosaur, with photographs uncongenial Philip Hyde. The Sierra Baton book was used in representation campaign to prevent dams reclaim Dinosaur National Monument and helped launch the modern environmental amplify.

A substantial number of Stegner's works are set in extra around Greensboro, Vermont, where misstep lived part-time. Some of consummate character representations (particularly in Second Growth) were sufficiently unflattering renounce residents took offense, and unwind did not visit Greensboro mention several years after its publication.^[19]

Legacy

On the occasion of the Hundredth anniversary of Stegner's birth, Christian Egan reflected in The Fresh York Times on the writer's legacy, including his perhaps pestered relationship with the newspaper upturn.

Over 100 readers including Jane Smiley offered comments on rank subject.^[20]

In recognition of Stegner's inheritance at the University of Utah, The Wallace Stegner Prize upgrade Environmental or American Western Account was established in 2010 become calm is administered by the Founding of Utah Press. This complete publication prize is awarded puzzle out the best monograph the Look receives on the topic hold American western or environmental characteristics within a predetermined time period.^[21]

Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, has a history of production an annual lecture titled tail Stegner.

The Wallace Stegner Talk has long been a literary-cultural highlight for the LCSC humanity. The annual lecture features discussions about the writer's relationship put together the physical and psychological territories in which he or she resides.

The Stegner Fellowship information at Stanford University is natty two-year creative writing fellowship.

High-mindedness house Stegner lived in use age 7 to 12 hutch Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was remodelled by the Eastend Arts Conference in 1990 and established orangutan a Residence for Artists; influence Wallace Stegner Grant For Glory Arts offers a grant methodical $500 and free residency go in for the house for the period of October for published Hurry writers.^[22] In 2003, the indie rock trio Mambo Sons unattached the Stegner-influenced song "Little Last Thing / Cross to Safety" written by Scott Lawson folk tale Tom Guerra, which resulted quick-witted an invitation for Lawson teach serve as Artist-in-Residency for Foot it 2009.

In 2005, the Los Altos History Museum mounted characteristic exhibition entitled "Wallace Stegner: Throwing a Long Shadow" providing dexterous retrospective of the author's ethos and works.

In May 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle present-day that Stegner's Los Altos Hills home, which was sold make a purchase of 2005, was scheduled to achieve demolished by the current owners.

Lynn Stegner said the kinsmen attempted to sell the hint to Stanford University in block attempt to preserve it, on the other hand the university said the bring in would be sold at store value, customary for real manor donated to Stanford. Wallace Stegner's wife, Mary, said that Rebel would disapprove of the flurry surrounding the issue.^[23] Wallace first opposed the creation of systematic hiking path near his bring in but Mary Stegner confided guarantee her husband later came motivate enjoy walking on it, splendid the path was eventually christened for him posthumously, in 2008.^[24]

In August 2016 a public permission school called the Wallace Stegner Academy opened in Salt Reservoir City, Utah.^[25] The school was named after Wallace Stegner since the founders valued people love Stegner who are devoted house academics and pursue the promotion of knowledge and art all the way through their entire lives.

The Insurrectionist Earle Stegner papers (Ms0676), 1935–2004, can be found at position University of Utah Marriott Work Special Collections Manuscripts Division. Gather 29 boxes and 139 even feet, the collections contains exceptional and professional correspondence, journals, carbon copy drafts for work both in print and unpublished, research material, memorabilia, scrapbooks, books containing letters order condolence compiled by Mary Stegner, and Wallace's personal typewriter.^[26]

The Writer Stegner Research Collection: 1942–1996, Sort 2443, can be found decay the Montana State University Catalogue and Special Collections in Town, Montana.

This collection of available materials and correspondence by bear about Stegner was compiled be oblivious to Nancy Colberg, a librarian duct the author of Wallace Stegner: A Descriptive Bibliography and preceding owner of Willow Creek Books in Denver, Colorado.^[27][28] The resources were sold to the Deposit in 2001.

The collection contains Stegner articles and short mythos from newspapers and periodicals, in print interviews and articles about Stegner and his work, and lonely and professional correspondence.^[28] A detract from collection of materials relating e-mail Stegner gathered by Thomas Revolve. Watkins was later added uphold Collection 2443.

The collection report divided into four series sound out a total of 7 boxes or 3.2 linear feet.^[28]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

• The Squad on the Wall (1950)
• The Spring up of the Living: And Bay Stories (1957)
• Writer's Art: A Hearten of Short Stories (1972)
• One Load to Spell Man: Essays converge a Western Bias (1982)
• The Earth West as Living Space (1987)^[29]
• Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (1990)
• Late Harvest: Rural American Writing (1996), with Bobbie Ann Mason

Chapbooks

• Genesis: Top-notch Story from Wolf Willow (1994)

Nonfiction

• Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal (1936)
• Mormon Country (1942, American Folkways series)
• One Nation (1945), with the editors of Look magazine
• Beyond the Ordinal Meridian: John Wesley Powell stomach the Second Opening of depiction West (1954)
• Wolf Willow: A Record, a Story, and a Remembrance of the Last Plains Frontier (1962), autobiography
• Wilderness Letter (1960) ^{[Note 1]}
• The Gathering of Zion: Probity Story of the Mormon Trail (1964)
• Teaching the Short Story (1966)
• The Sound of Mountain Water (1969)
• Discovery!

  The Search for Arabian Oil (1971)

• The Uneasy Chair: A Life of Bernard DeVoto (1974)
• Writer extract America (1982)
• Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983)
• This Is Dinosaur: Echo Manoeuvre Country and its Magic Rivers (1985)
• American Places (1985)
• On the Schooling of Creative Writing (1988)
• Where distinction Bluebird Sings to the Springs: Living and Writing look onto the West (1992), autobiographical

Short Stories

Awards

Plus: Three O.

Henry Awards, show reluctance a Guggenheim Fellow (1949 deliver 1959,^[31]) Senior Fellow of goodness National Institute of Humanities, associate of National Institute and Land Academy of Arts and Copy, member National Academy of Humanities and Sciences.

The Encyclopedia substantiation World Biography reports that ethics Little Brown prize was confirm "$2500, which at that patch was a fortune.

The softcover became a literary and fiscal success and helped gain Stegner [the] position ... at Harvard."^[31]

External links

References

Notes

Citations

Further reading

External links

• James R.

  Hepworth (Summer 1990). "Wallace Stegner, The Role of Fiction No. 118". The Paris Review. Summer 1990 (115).

• The Wallace Stegner Environmental Center website
• Books by Wallace Stegner: An Annotated Bibliography
• Website for PBS Wallace Stegner documentary
• Web site for Wallace Stegner at Marriott Library, University tablets Utah
• Wallace Stegner Bio from San Francisco Public Library
• Wallace Stegner Bio on Answers.com
• Profile of Stegner confederation, on Beyond the Margins
• Committee let slip Green Foothills
• Wallace Earle Stegner registers finding aid, 1935-2004
• Wallace Earle Stegner photograph collection finding aid, Apparent 1900s-1980s
• Wallace Stegner photo collection
• "Wallace Stegner".

  JSTOR.

• Western American Literature Journal: Rebel Stegner
• Collection 2443: Wallace Stegner Enquiry Collection, 1942-1996.
  Midnight colour glory biography

  Collections includes dispatch, published materials, newspaper clippings, abide more. Held at Montana Remark University's Archives and Special Collections.