Wallace Stegner
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born
February 18, 1909
died
April 13, 1993
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
about this author
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers."
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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner avg rating 4.27 — 4,376 ratings — published 1971 15 editions |
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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner avg rating 4.19 — 3,287 ratings — published 1987 12 editions |
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.96 — 599 ratings — published 1943 6 editions |
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All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner avg rating 4.09 — 438 ratings — published 1967 6 editions |
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The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.79 — 446 ratings — published 1976 5 editions |
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.96 — 201 ratings — published 1992 5 editions |
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Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.73 — 190 ratings — published 1979 3 editions |
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner avg rating 4.04 — 153 ratings — published 1953 7 editions |
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Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.64 — 145 ratings — published 1937 |
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Mormon Country by Wallace Stegner avg rating 3.79 — 112 ratings — published 1942 4 editions |
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Wallace Stegner on tour for book "Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)"
Author appearance, August 17, 2009 06:30PM
Sunriver Books & Music, Sunriver Village Building 25C, Sunriver, OR, The United States
Stegners writing is simply beautiful! The Classics Book Club should enjoy this...more
Author appearance, August 17, 2009 06:30PM
Sunriver Books & Music, Sunriver Village Building 25C, Sunriver, OR, The United States
Stegners writing is simply beautiful! The Classics Book Club should enjoy this...more
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"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in."
— Wallace Stegner
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— Wallace Stegner
"Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend."
— Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
4 editions
— Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
"There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters."
— Wallace Stegner (Crossing to Safety)
4 editions
— Wallace Stegner (Crossing to Safety)
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