Much of the literary landscape of Wallace Stegner's prose is the literal landscape of the Rocky Mountain region that extends roughly from Colorado over to Utah and into Nevada, up to Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, and into parts of Canada. This area is "St...

Historian, biographer, essayist, short-story writer, and, above all, novelist--Wallace Stegner has been recognized as a genuine Westerner who wrote of the West with deep knowledge, empathy, and great sophistication. Often ignored by the Eastern literary...

Wallace Stegner has had a productive, distinguished career as a writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. His novels are realistic in manner and almost invariably set in the western United States. Yet his primary interest is not in places as such,...

THE BIG surprise in "Candy Mountain" is how much fun it is. Co-directors Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlizer take the dated road movie off its bricks, gussy it up and keep it chugging along. And you get sweeter on "Candy" with every passing mile....

JOHN KIRK AND TRISH MILLER The Big Rock Candy Mountain A Gentle Wind 1067 We've had Howdya-Dos from Woody Guthrie to John McCutcheon (and many others between and after), so do we need another by this couple from Greenfield Center, New York? That...