Wallace Stegner 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 Remains: Buried, Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, VT
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 Left at Orphanage
Author of books:
Remembering Laughter (1937, novel) Mormon Country (194, history) The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943, novel) The Preacher and the Slave (1950, novel) Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) 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: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto (1974, biography) 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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