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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Wallace Stegner
    sub title: dean of western writers
  name:
    name part: Beam, Alex
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: utu
    date issued: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 91 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In this brisk and riveting biography, Alex Beam takes readers on a journey through Wallace Stegner’s life and complicated legacy as one of the twentieth century’s best storytellers and chroniclers of the American West. In a career that spanned half a century, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction. Reared on the Canadian-American frontier and educated in Salt Lake City, Utah, this quintessential Man of the West won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He landed a coveted teaching job at Harvard but, eager to get back to the West, left it for a professorship at Stanford. Stegner was a full-throated environmentalist who served on the board of the Sierra Club, worked for the Secretary of the Interior and wrote the famous Wilderness Letter on the healing power of open spaces. He founded Stanford University’s legendary Stegner Writing Fellowship, where his students included Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Sandra Day O'Connor, Tillie Olsen and Scott Turow. In his later years, Stegner wondered if he had lived too deep into the wrong century. He left Stanford when he felt students no longer accorded professors the respect they deserved, and later became embroiled in a plagiarism scandal that tarred his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose. Stegner ended his career with his valedictory masterpiece, Crossing to Safety. It was his rare Eastern novel, set in his adopted home of Greensboro, Vermont, where he chose to be buried.
  note: Alex Beam.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stegner, Wallace
      name part: 1909-1993
  subject:
    topic: Authors, American
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Conservationists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Historians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: PS3537.T316 Z543 2025
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 1560855193
  identifier: 9781560855194
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250310
    record change date: 20251003204657.2
    record identifier: in00005645535