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	Utah History Encyclopedia
		Wallace Earle Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, in 1909.
		Stegner was a realist, and in his many novels he created characters with a psychological depth and social complexity far beyond the sterile formulas long associated with the western novel.
		Stegner's several novels with a California setting show a concern with contemporary life--the ahistorical or hedonistic lack of values of the present impinging on the settled but sometimes narrow familial and social patterns of an older America--and the process of the salvaging of a personal past.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/s/STEGNER,WALLACE.html (538 words)

	Wallace Stegner ~ Dean and Mentor of Western American Writers
		Wallace Stegner is one of those secret pleasures and surprises of American literature.
		Stegner was a student of Vardis Fisher, whose semi-autobiographical novels undoubtedly inspired Stegner to write his early works, and Stegner is the thread that connects the two great Old Irascibles of the West, Fisher and Stegner's creative writing student Edward Abbey.
		Stegner's own Wolf Willow is an obvious inspiration for another famous student's work, Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain, and his environmental concerns are carried to zealot extremes by Abbey.
	www.dancingbadger.com /4stegner.htm (1935 words)

	Wallace Stegner Biography - SFPL.org
		Wallace Stegner once said about his writing, "In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth." Stegner's prose has inspired generations of Americans to seek their own truth.
		Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa.
		Wallace Stegner also founded the Committee for the Green Foothills in Santa Clara County, California and was involved with The Sierra Club and Wilderness Society.
	sfpl.lib.ca.us /librarylocations/main/envir/wsbio.htm (908 words)

	Stegner - All the Little Live Things
		Stegner was a child, his father had shuttled the family from North Dakota to the state of Washington, and from Saskatchewan to Montana and Utah, pursuing the dream of an easy life that was always just out of reach.
		Stegner had a long career as a teacher of creative writing and literature at the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University and Stanford University, where he was the director of the Creative Writing Center from 1945 until his retirement in 1971.
		Wallace Earle Stegner was born on Feb. 18, 1909, in Lake Mills, Iowa, the son of Scandinavian immigrants.
	www.msu.edu /~lschaef/bookclub/pastpicks/stegner.html (1000 words)

	About the Wallace Stegner Center - Wallace Stegner Center - S.J. Quinney College of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment represents a concrete manifestation of the University of Utah S. Quinney College of Law's commitment to the multidisciplinary study of natural resources and environmental law and policy.
		Wallace Stegner was committed to understanding the West--its people, landscape, and history--and to prodding it toward a rich and sustainable future.
		The Wallace Stegner Center and the parallel J.D. and LL.M. programs in natural resources and environmental law provide University of Utah faculty and students the opportunity to use the most recent thinking and research to create sustainable options for present and future generations.
	www.law.utah.edu /stegner/about.asp (541 words)

	Stegner_Wallace_ia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A novelist, historian, and environmental activist, Wallace Stegner was a major literary figure whose body of work mirrored his passion for the West and concern for social justice.
		Stegner was someone as concerned about equality and social justice as about the wilderness and the environment, someone who was at home in East L.A., as he was rafting down the Colorado River.
		Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa on his grandfather's farm.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/stegner_wallace_ia.htm (609 words)

	UIowa - Papers of Wallace Stegner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wallace Stegner (1909 -- 1993) was born in Lake Mills, Iowa.
		Stegner graduated from the University of Utah in 1930.
		The Wallace Stegner Papers at the University of Iowa Libraries consist of three boxes containing various stages of manuscript drafts and proofs for a number of Stegner's works.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC750/MsC703/stegner.html (660 words)

	Stegner_Wallace_mt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wallace Stegner, the Dean of Western Writers, was born on February 18, 1909 on a farm near Lake Hills, Iowa.
		Stegner then got a job at Harvard where he only planned on teaching half time but in the middle of the year he had to replace a teacher for an advanced English class.
		Stegner suffered from a broken collarbone, all his ribs on the left side were broken, and his lungs collapsed.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/stegner_wallace_mt.htm (1322 words)

	Wallace Stegner Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909, in the rural community of Lake Mills, Iowa.
		Stegner's concern with the past's influence on the present and a societal sense of identity is most apparent, though, in his nonfiction books.
		Stegner's involvement in environmental causes intensified when he was invited to be an assistant to the secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, in 1961.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/wallace-stegner (1479 words)

	Setting and Landscape in Wallace Stegner
		Wallace Stegner, on the other hand, uses setting as if it were clay in his novel, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, molding and shaping it to serve his needs.
		Stegner mirrors the classic writer’s perceptions and beliefs about the West, when he says, in his book of essays, The Sound of Mountain Water, "It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such a wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into...," (150).
		Stegner, in the introduction to Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, wrote of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, it is "...my first and most heartfelt commentary on western optimism and enterprise and the common man’s dream of something for nothing," (xxi).
	writeonill.org /setting.htm (3642 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Wallace Earle Stegner, the "dean of Western writers," was born on his grandfather's farm near Lake Mills.
		Stegner graduated from high school in Salt Lake City, then received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1930.
		Stegner spent his last years at Los Altos Hills, Calif. He died at a hospital in Santa Fe, two weeks after he was injured in a car accident.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/stegner.html (301 words)

	Wallace Stegner's Annotated Bibliography
		While Stegner disguised most of the characters fairly well, the Jewish couple in particular was quite real and remained close to the Stegners for decades, and the novel inspired a great deal of gossip and resentment among many Greensboro folk.
		Stegner is less well known today for his short stories, but in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s he was well recognized as a master of the form.
		Stegner, like many of his generation in the West, had grown up hearing about the "Wobblies" and their exploits, and the subject of the movement's most enduring hero proved irresistible.
	www.montana.edu /stegner/Stegner/bib.html (3954 words)

	Wallace Stegner
		The Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University was established to honor more than half a century of wisdom and commitment that novelist, historian, and conservationist Wallace Stegner contributed to the culture and society of the West.
		Stegner knew that MSU’s traditions of scholarship had made the university central to an ongoing national reexamination of Western American history, literature, and conservation.
		Equally important, Stegner knew that the people of the West were increasingly challenged by fast-changing economic, social, and environmental trends.
	cls.wilson.montana.edu:16080 /stegner (356 words)

	Stegner:: University of Utah News Release: March 27, 2002
		Wallace Stegner showed [in Hundredth Meridian] that the mountain men, the hardrock miners, and other early explorers were just the first era in the settlement of the region by non-Indians.
		The second era, of which Stegner wrote, involved the populating of the lands beyond the barrier of the dry line.
		For its seventh annual symposium, the Stegner Center will observe this book's fiftieth anniversary by focusing on the interplay between these two extraordinary individuals, both of whom in their own ways and times have so significantly influenced the shape of the American West.
	www.utah.edu /news/releases/02/mar/stegner.html (475 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indeed, Stegner's most magnificent writing can be found in his descriptions of the mountain peaks, deep canyons, winding ravines, and vast stretches of plain and prairie.
		Stegner's narrator is confined to a wheelchair and partially paralyzed.
		Stegner eliminates any concrete evidence of Susan's infidelity with Frank Sargent, leaving Lyman the task of piecing together the events that led up to Agnes's death.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/angle_of_repose.asp (1153 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Angle of Repose \| Wallace Stegner
		Wallace Stegner was born in 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa.
		Honest and straightforward, educated yet unpretentious, cantankerous yet compassionate, Wallace Stegner was an enormous presence in the American literary landscape, a man who wrote and lived with ferocity, energy, and integrity.
		Stegner's novels are known for their strong sense of place.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/angle_of_repose.html (1959 words)

	Stegner,Wallace Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.
		Wallace Stegner and his wife Mary Stegner are the editors for this volume of definitive American short stories.
		Stegner's enchantment with the West and his ability to capture in words what the land has taught him, not only about nature but about the human condition, are beautifully united in this collection of 16 essays.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Stegner,Wallace (1080 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Wallace Stegner - Books: Meet the Writers
		Stegner was an active environmentalist whose eloquent homages to the land where he grew up lived can be found in his own writings, and also in John L. Thomas's account of Stegner's friendship with fellow environmentalist, historian Bernard DeVoto.
		Stegner's popular Crossing to Safety, the story of a friendship between two married couples in Wisconsin and Vermont, earned accolades for its depiction of how life's hard experience changes us, and our relationships with each other.
		Stegner once said that the novel is the closest he has come to writing his autobiography.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968087 (420 words)

	James M. Dourgarian, Bookman - Collectable & Rare Books
		Like John in ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS, Stegner's countenance was one "of sobriety, responsibility and masculine resolution." At the same time, he was very charming and had a twinkle in his eyes as if he knew something I didn't.
		Wallace Stegner as a person, as a writer and story-teller, as an example, was a gift.
		I knew Wallace Stegner for ten years; he was my father-in-law, though in truth the hyphened suffix eventually held no meaning.
	www.jimbooks.com /aboutstegner.htm (3845 words)

	Postmodern Author on Stage: Fair Use and Wallace Stegner, The American Drama - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Hall, who attended the performance of her play at WLA, referred to the organization as "a bastion of Stegner adoration," she accurately described the esteem with which Stegner is regarded by many of its members (Reynolds 8).
		Stegner's novel won a Pulitzer Prize and received largely positive reviews, particularly regarding Stegner's rendition of the historical portion of the novel.
		But Stegner had "borrowed" heavily from Western writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote's personal correspondence to her Eastern friend, Helena Gilder, and her then-unpublished reminiscences for the basis of his fictional Susan Ward.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4129/is_200507/ai_n14686676 (705 words)

	Wallace Stegner
		Stegner entered the University of Utah at the age of sixteen and received his Bachelor's degree in 1930.
		Stegner's supporters considered this a snub by the Eastern Establishment against the West.
		Stegner, on the other hand, upholds the cause of wilderness because it is the great teacher, humanity's one hope of learning to live humbly, with courtesy and restraint.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/Stegner.html (917 words)

	The reluctant activist - Wallace Stegner - Column Sierra - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stegner did not think his message particularly remarkable at the time, much less foresee that, despite its distinctly American references, the "wilderness letter" would gain renown among conservationists worldwide, appearing on posters throughout Africa, Australia, and Canada as well as the United States.
		Stegner did not think his fiction made for very good politics, nor did he particularly want it to.
		Stegner had taken up conservation causes well before he wrote his famous wilderness letter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1525/is_n4_v78/ai_13180167 (719 words)

	Angle of Repose(Wallace Stegner)
		Wallace Stegner (1909-93) wrote Angle of Repose in 1971 -- having himself just retired from a founding tenure of Stanford's Writing Program.
		A second controversy was an accusation of plagiarism by scholar Mary Ellen Williams-Walsh who objected to Stegner's taking the real letters of Mary Hallock Foote and calling them the letters of Susan Burling Ward, a fictitious character.
		A common theme in all of Stegner's work is the beauty of the Western wilderness.
	www.grandpoohbah.net /Grandpoohbah/BookReviews/angle.htm (1015 words)

	Wallace Stegner - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stegner received most of his education in Utah, graduating from the University in 1930.
		He married Mary Stuart Page in 1934, and for the next decade the couple followed Wallace's teaching career-to the University of Wisconsin, Harvard, and eventually to Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program, and where he was to remain until his retirement in 1971.
		Although his fiction deals with many universal themes, Stegner is primarily recognized as a writer of the American West.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000030806,00.html?... (463 words)

	SULAIR: AmLitStudies: Wallace Stegner Collections
		Novelist, short-story writer, historian, and environmentalist, Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, in 1909.
		Stegner gained his first popular and critical success with The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), which marked the beginning of his lifelong association with the American West.
		Content: Manuscripts, research notes, and correspondence related to Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971), which was based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/stegner.html (800 words)

	ONE OF OURS: Stegner
		Wallace Stegner BA'30, a tireless writer who erected a structure of work as grand as the Western landscape he loved, has come back to Salt Lake—back to the U, back to his native "geography of hope," back to the only place he ever publicly called home.
		Stegner writes that he fell in love with books at the U under the tutelage of the noted Idaho author Vardis Fisher, his first English instructor.
		Stegner's book Mormon Country, written at Harvard out of "sheer homesickness" for the West, is a heartfelt treatise on the Mormon community that sprang up in the unforgiving geology of the Colorado Plateau.
	www.alumni.utah.edu /continuum/winter95/stgmain.html (2043 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Wallace Stegner: Beating a Dead Thematic Horse?
		Stegner is a guy that I’ve never been all that crazy about as a novelist.
		A Stegner novel is largely about the elegant prose and the way that humans are ensnared into a natural landscape.
		Whereas a Stegner novel will essentially reveal what seems to me two obvious and less original truisms: (1) humans must come to terms with their past just before passing on; and (2) nature is strong and may consume humanity at a passing whim.
	www.edrants.com /?p=1750 (831 words)

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