Among his many literary prizes are the Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971) and the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird (1976). By the time of his death in 1993 he had published some two dozen works of fiction, history, biography, and essays. His first novel, Remembering Laughter, was published in 1937.

Throughout his career and after, Stegner's literary output was tremendous.

A number of his creative writing students have become some of today's most well respected writers, including Wendell Berry, Thomas McGuane, Raymond Carver, Edward Abbey, Robert Stone, and Larry McMurty. He married Mary Stuart Page in 1934, and for the next decade the couple followed Wallace's teaching career-to the University of Wisconsin, Harvard, and eventually to Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program, and where he was to remain until his retirement in 1971. He furthered his education at the University of Iowa, where he received a master's and a doctoral degree. Stegner received most of his education in Utah, graduating from the University in 1930.

Many of the landscapes he encountered in his peripatetic youth figure largely in his work, as do characters based on his stern father and athletic, outgoing brother. The son of Scandinavian immigrants, he traveled with his parents and brother all over the West-to North Dakota, Washington, Saskatchewan, Montana, and Wyoming-before settling in Salt Lake City in 1921. OL478197W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.57 Pages 554 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140147748 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:54:20 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA157701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

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