Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)
Autor von Angle of Repose
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In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was an American mehr anzeigen novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian; he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. The house Stegner lived in from age 7 to 12 in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists; the Wallace Stegner Grant For The Arts offers a grant of $500 and free residency at the house for the month of October for published Canadian writers. Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, from a car accident on March 28, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) 787 Exemplare
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992) 722 Exemplare
Wilderness at the Edge: A Citizen Proposal to Protect Utah's Canyons and Deserts (1991) 12 Exemplare
The American West: The magazine of the Western History Association, Volume V, No. 6, November 1968 3 Exemplare
The American West: The Magazine of the Western History Association, July 1968/Volume V, Number 4 3 Exemplare
Two Rivers 3 Exemplare
FIRE AND ICE 2 Exemplare
Carrion Spring [short story] 2 Exemplare
Angle Of Repose Part 1 Of 2 2 Exemplare
The Effective Theme 2 Exemplare
The View from the Balcony [short story] 1 Exemplar
Memo to the Mountain Lion 1 Exemplar
Montana Stories 1 Exemplar
Αμερικανική Λογοτεχνία 1 Exemplar
Genesis a Story From Wolf Willow 1 Exemplar
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 703 Exemplare
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — einige Ausgaben — 490 Exemplare
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Mitwirkender — 464 Exemplare
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Mitwirkender — 258 Exemplare
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Mitwirkender — 136 Exemplare
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Mitwirkender — 133 Exemplare
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Mitwirkender — 83 Exemplare
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Mitwirkender — 55 Exemplare
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Ansel Adams - Letters & Images 1916-1984 — Vorwort — 2 Exemplare
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Vol. 6, No. 3&4 (Autumn-Winter 1971) (1971) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Geburtstag
- 1909-02-18
- Todestag
- 1993-04-13
- Begräbnisort
- Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vermont, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
- Sterbeort
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Todesursache
- respiratory failure
- Wohnorte
- Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Great Falls, Montana, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Saskatchewan, Canada
Los Altos Hills, California, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Utah (BA ∙ 1930)
State University of Iowa (MA ∙ 1932)
State University of Iowa (PhD ∙ 1935)
University of California - Berufe
- professor
historian
novelist
essayist - Beziehungen
- Stegner, Page (son)
Stegner, Mary (wife) - Organisationen
- Stanford University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harvard University
University of Utah
Augusta College
Sierra Club (Zeige alle 9)
University of Toronto
American Academy in Rome
National Parks Advisory Board - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Pulitzer Prize (1972)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1969)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)
American Antiquarian Society (1985)
Robert Kirsch Award (1980)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1974) (Zeige alle 16)
Fellow, Utah State Historical Society
O. Henry Award (1942, 1950, 1954)
National Book Award (1977)
Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (1968)
Blackhawk Award (1963)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1972)
Fublright Fellowship (1962, 1968)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1950, 1952, 1960)
Rockefeller Fellowship (1950-51)
Phi Beta Kappa - Kurzbiographie
- Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
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A very short, poignant novel. I’m not sure why this was in my audio collection (must have been free!) as it didn’t tick my usual boxes and I’d never even heard of the author (turns out he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner - oops!). However, this bleak little tale had an evocative sense of time and place. Good work from the narrator in this version, too.
Merged review:
A very short, poignant novel. I’m not sure why this was in my audio collection (must have been free!) as it didn’t tick my usual boxes and I’d never even heard of the author (turns out he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner - oops!). However, this bleak little tale had an evocative sense of time and place. Good work from the narrator in this version, too.… (mehr)
Merged review:
A very short, poignant novel. I’m not sure why this was in my audio collection (must have been free!) as it didn’t tick my usual boxes and I’d never even heard of the author (turns out he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner - oops!). However, this bleak little tale had an evocative sense of time and place. Good work from the narrator in this version, too.… (mehr)
I didn't find this all that engrossing - it's a slender story following on from 'Big Rock Candy Mountain' (I would read that first), and set many years later when one of the characters returns to his youthful hometown, Salt Lake City. It is a kind of meditation on memory, regret, family, change, missed chances and roads not taken. There's some very good writing, and memorable scenes, but in the end it doesn't have the weight and impact of some of his other novels.
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