Wallace (Earle) Stegner - Bibliography, Further reading about Stegner, Awards

Writer and educator, born in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA. The son of Scandinavian immigrants, he lived in a number of Western states with his family before they settled in Salt Lake City, UT. After completing his education at the universities of Utah (1930 BA) and Iowa (1935 PhD), he began teaching English, a career that would take him to several major universities, mostly at Stanford University, where he directed the Creative Writing Center (1945–71). Starting with Restoring Laughter (1937), he published over two dozen novels, collections of short stories and essays, and historical works. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) was among his most popular novels, while Angel of Repose (1972) won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His non-fiction works include biographies of John Wesley Powell, Joe Hill, and Bernard DeVoto. Most of his works dealt with the American West, which he viewed with a mixture of scepticism about its stereotypes, yet respect for its strengths. In his later years he increasingly expressed his concern for the damage being done to the natural environment of the West.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. He also won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977. He refused a National Medal from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992 due to his opposition to the way the NEA had become politicized in the late 1980s.

Bibliography

Novels

Remembering Laughter (1937) The Potter's House (1938) On a Darkling Plain (1940) Fire and Ice (1941) The Big Rock Candy Mountain (autobiographical) (1943) Second Growth (1947) The Preacher And the Slave aka Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1951) A Shooting Star (1961) All the Little Live Things (1967) Angle of Repose (1971) The Spectator Bird (1976) Recapitulation (1979) Crossing to Safety (1987)

Collections

The Women On the Wall (1950) The City of the Living: And Other Stories (1957) Writer's Art: A Collection of Short Stories (1972) Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (1990) Late Harvest: Rural American Writing (1996) (with Bobbie Ann Mason)

Chapbooks

Genesis: A Story from Wolf Willow (1994)

Nonfiction

Mormon Country (1942) One Nation (1945) Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (autobiography) (1955) The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail (1964) Teaching the Short Story (1966) The Sound of Mountain Water (1969) Writer in America (1982) Conversations With Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983) This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country And Its Magic Rivers (1985) American Places (1985) On the Teaching of Creative Writing (1988) The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto (1989) Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, 'Living and writing in the west', (autobiographical) (1992)

Further reading about Stegner

1984 Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work by Jackson J. Benson

Awards

1937 Little, Brown Prize for Remembering Laughter 1967 Commonwealth Gold Medal for All the Little Things 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose 1977 National Book Award for The Spectator Bird 1980 Los Angeles Times Kirsch award for lifetime achievement 1990 P.E.N. Center USA West award]] for his body of work 1991 California Arts Council award]] for his body of work 1992 National Endowment for the Arts (refused)

Plus: Three O. Henry Awards, twice a Guggenheim Fellow, Senior Fellow of the National Institute of Humanities, memberof National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, member National Academy of Arts and Sciences.