A vision of the West
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- The dean of Western letters. Jones Jr., Malcolm // Newsweek;4/26/1993, Vol. 121 Issue 17, p68
Pays tribute to Wallace Stegner, writer and teacher, undisputed dean of Western writers, who died recently at age 84. In more than two dozen books of history, biography, essays and fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel `Angel of Repose,' Stegner helped reshape the way we see the...
- Wallace Stegner. // U.S. News & World Report;4/26/93, Vol. 114 Issue 16, p23
Profiles author Wallace Stegner who won the Pulitzer Prize for `Angle of Repose,' who died at the week of April 19, 1993 at the age of 84. Environmental activist; How he got to know the American West; Details.
- The smell of distance: Wallace Stegner's definition of Western non-fiction. // Social Science Journal;2001, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p557
Focuses on the works and insights of Wallace Stegner on the West. Description of the American West; Collection of essays in 'Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs'; Works of Mark Twain.
- Wallace Stegner's Novelization of the American West and Western. Irvine, Colin // Journal of the West;Summer2006, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p97
The article illustrates how Wallace Stegner capitalized on the paradoxical nature of the novel to establish historical continuity and debunk myths woven into the fabric of the romantic Western genre that divides the West into Old and New. Stegner's work encourages people to change their way of...
- Western heroes. // New Yorker;5/10/93, Vol. 69 Issue 12, p41
Examines the Department of the Interior. The gathering to celebrate Wallace Stegner's life and words on Thursday, April 22, 1993 (nine days after Stegner died); Comments from Secretary Bruce Babbitt; Questions as to whether former Secretaries of the Interior in the Reagan-Bush Administrations...
- Death of a definitive western writer. Byfield, Virginia // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;5/3/93, Vol. 20 Issue 20, p40
Pays tribute to Pulitzer prize-winning author Wallace Stegner, who spent only six of his 84 years on the Canadian Prairie, and never though of himself as anything other than American. His death of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; The Stegner homestead in Saskatchewan; His memoir...
- "Except As a Friend': Wallace Stegner Among the Mormons. BAGLEY, WILL // Utah Historical Quarterly;Spring2010, Vol. 78 Issue 2, p100
The articles discusses the adolescence and youth of author Wallace Stegner among Mormons in Salt Lake City, Utah. The author reflects on social effects of the transition of Mormonism from a young radical religious movement to a mainstream religion. Emphasis is given to Stegner's development as...
- WESTERN EXCURSIONS. Bontly, Thomas // Sewanee Review;Summer2000, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p481
Reviews the book 'Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West,' by Wallace Stegner, edited by Page Stegner.
- JOHN DANIEL. Daniel, John; Slovic, Scott // Winter Creek;2002, p105
This article profiles U.S. writer John Daniel. The author lived in 29 dwellings in the course of 40 years. He lived in a guest cottage next to the home of author Wallace Stegner in Los Altos Hills, California in the 1980s. Daniel wrote the book, The Trail Home, while he was living at the...
