AKA Wallace Earle Stegner

Born: 18-Feb-1909
Birthplace: Lake Mills, IA
Died: 13-Apr-1993
Location of death: Santa Fe, NM
Cause of death: Accident - Automobile

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Angle of Repose

Grew up in East End, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Salt Lake City, UT.

Wife: Mary Stuart Page (m. 1934, one son)
Son: Page Stegner (professor at UC Santa Cruz)

    University: BA, University of Utah (1930)
    University: MA, University of Iowa (1932)
    University: PhD, University of Iowa (1935)
    Professor: Creative Writing, Stanford University (1945-71)

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1972 for The Angle of Repose
    National Book Award for Fiction 1977 for The Spectator Bird

Author of books:
Remembering Laughter (1937, novel)
Mormon Country (1942, history)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943, novel)
The Preacher and the Slave (1950, novel)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954, biography, of John Wesley Powell)
A Shooting Star (1961, novel)
Wolf Willow (1962, novel)
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail (1964, history)
All the Little Live Things (1967, novel)
Angle of Repose (1971, novel)
The Uneasy Chair (1974, biography, of Bernard DeVoto)
The Spectator Bird (1976, novel)
Recapitulation (1979, novel)
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992, essays)

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