In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner
(1909-93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the
American West--writing more than two dozen works of history,
biography, essays, and fiction, including the Pulitzer
Prize-winning "Angle of Repose" and the bestselling "Crossing to
Safety." Jackson J. Benson's "Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work"
is the first full-dress biography of this celebrated "Dean of
Western Writers."
Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited access to
Stegner's letters and personal files, Benson traces the trajectory
of Wallace Stegner's life from his birth on his grandfather's Iowa
farm to his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic,
historian, environmental activist, and teacher, and as founder of
Stanford's creative writing program.
But Benson's book is as much a consideration of Stegner's literary
legacy as it is a retelling of his life. His critical reassessment
of the entire body of Stegner's work argues convincingly for his
subject's place in the literary canon--not merely as a "regional"
Western writer but straightforwardly as one of the great American
writers of the twentieth century.
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