Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner acclaimed American novelist and short story writer

Feb 18, 1909

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: February 18, 1909
  • Died on: April 13, 1993
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Author, Environmentalists, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers
  • Ideologies: Environmentalists
  • City/State: Iowa
  • Spouses: Mary Stuart Page

Wallace Stegner born at

Lake Mills

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Birth Place

In 1934, he married Mary Stuart Page. His son, Page Stegner is also a writer.

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Personal Life

He died on April 13, 1993 at the age of 84, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, from a car accident in the previous month.

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Personal Life

In 2010, the University of Utah Press came out with the Stegner Prize in Environmental or American Western History. This was created in his honour.

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Personal Life

He was born as Wallace Earle Stegner in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA, to the couple, George Stegner and Hilds Paulson. He was mainly raised in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah and Eastend, Saskatchewan.

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Childhood & Early Life

In Utah, he was part of the Boy Scout troop at an LDS Church. He later obtained a B.A from the University of Utah in 1930. Subsequently, he obtained a masters and a doctorate degree from the University of Iowa. He also attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1937, he published the novel, ‘Remembering Laughter', which originally won a Novelette Contest that was sponsored by the publisher. This was his first published work in a magazine named, ‘Redbook’.

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Career

In 1938, he came out with the short story, ‘Bugle Song'. The same year, he published his novella titled, ‘The Potter's House'. In later years, he came out with the novels, ‘On a Darkling Plain' and 'Fire and Ice '.

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In 1942, he came out with the short story, ‘Chip Off the Old Block'. The following year, he published his semi-autobiographical novel, ‘The Big Rock Candy Mountain', the non-fiction piece, ‘Mormon Country’ and the short story, 'Hostage'.

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Published in 1947, his novel, 'Second Growth' revolves around a group of unsociable natives who get involved with the people from a New England village.

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Career

In 1950, he came out with the novel, 'The Preacher and the Slave'. In later years, he came out with 'The City of the Living: And Other Stories', 'One Nation' and ‘Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier'.

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His novel, ‘Angle of Repose' was voted as the best 20th century novel by the 'San Francisco Chronicle'. The ‘Modern Library’ ranked this book to be 82nd on the list of ‘100 best English-language novels of the 20th century'.

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Major Works