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...

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...

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...

Wallace Stegner was an American novelist, historian, biographer, and teacher. Widely regarded as the dean of western writers, Stegner evoked a vivid sense of the western United States as a place and of the intimate relationship of the people with that...

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western...

A small publishing house did not have to dig far to unearth a long-buried book Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Wallace Stegner wrote a half-century ago about oil exploration in the Middle East.The owner of Selwa Press, Timothy Barger, is the son of the former president of...

The Declining of the World's Parks While the state of the world’s parks is sometimes depressing, knowledge is our first step toward a solution.Not far from the western edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the shade of black birches, hemlocks, tulip poplars, and oaks...

In 2000, the Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with The Interpreter of Maladies, making her the first South Asian—and, at 33, among the youngest of any ethnicity—to be named in that category. She appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, wearing crimson,...

In the following excerpt, the critics survey Stegner's short fiction, paying particular attention to "The Women on the Wall" and "Field Guide to the Western Birds."

In the following interview, Etulain helps Stegner probe into his formative years as a fiction writer, including his work on the first short stories and Remembering Laughter.

In this excerpt, the critic explores the dualities of civilization and nature and life and death in Stegner's short stories and critiques the author's writing techniques.

Wallace Stegner's short story "Butcher Bird" shows that power becomes destructive when it is motivated and then fueled by jealousy. The jealousy of the father Harry Lauder in this story leads to him making drastic decisions, which in turn lead to dangerous outcomes for both him and his family.