Wallace Stegner (1909 – 1993) American Writer
Wallace Stegner was an American novelist, historian, biographer, and teacher. Widely regarded as the dean of western writers, Stegner evoked a vivi...
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Although sometimes categorized as merely a "western writer," Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was more than that: he wrote 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction, served as a mentor to many young writers, a...
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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 Stat...
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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 ...
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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, a...
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In the following essay, Stegner recreates the experience of writing "The Women on the Wall, " describing how the story came to him and how he developed the plot.
There are so many kin...
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Below, Kimball writes that Stegner is "quintessential^ an American writer, " and notes that Stegner is very successful in presenting the struggles of the individual
The very act of wr...
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Here, Klinkenborg praises Stegner's traditional narrative style and discusses Stegner as a "Western writer."
At last count, Wallace Stegner had written thirteen novels, two sho...
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In the essay below, Zahlan studies how the main characters in "The Traveler" and "City of the Living" react to the foreign places to which they travel and how each reacts t...
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In this review the critic admires Stegner's skill at presenting single moments in people's lives poetically and powerfully.
When that delicious and all-too-uncommon occasion arises fo...
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In the following excerpted survey of Stegner's short fiction, Eisinger declares the author indecisive.
With the publication in 1956 of The City of the Living, a volume of short stories, Wall...
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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.
"Ther...
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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."
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In the following essay, Ellis examines the life-in-death and death-in-life metaphor in the story "Maiden in a Tower. " The critic also argues that literary reference in this story to The...
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In the following essay, Stegner discusses the work of the serious fiction writer who he calls "a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life."
The editor of a mass-circulation magazine...
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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.
[Stegner]: Tomlinson, w...
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In the following assessment of Collected Stories, Tyler praises Stegner's tales, calling them "as solid as good furniture" and naming Stegner a master of the short story form.
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In the following estimation of Collected Stories, Garrett appreciates Stegner's ability to present, with equal believability, a wide range of characters and situations.
Here we have 31 short...
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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"; Lord Elgin once said this quote. The short story "Butcher Bird" by Wallace Stegner portrays this quotation by showing that power becomes destructive when it is mo...
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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 ...
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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 Mou...
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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 ethnicit...
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Wallace Stegner (1909 – 1993) American Writer
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Critical Essay by Wallace Stegner
The Power of Jealousy in "Butcher Bird"
Dispute over long-buried Stegner book
