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For years, troubling charges—appropriation, plagiarism—have hovered over Wallace Stegner’s famous novel, “Angle of Repose,” the story of a mining engineer and his wife living in the ...
I FOUND MY WAY to Wallace Stegner by accident. Really through three identical accidents, lightning strikes that I’m only now beginning to suspect were signs. Given Stegner’s lifelong ...
Brian interviewed Wallace Stegner at the writer's home on Jan. 22, 1993. Stegner, 84, died April 13 of that year in Sante Fe of injuries he received in a March car accident. The narrow road slips ...
It amazes me to realize that Wallace Stegner has published books in seven decades now-since the 1930s. Although his fiction and essays range in setting from California to Vermont and Mexico to ...
Greensboro, Vt. — — Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it’s understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author.
Susan Salter Reynolds is a Times staff writer who last wrote for the magazine about children's book author Louis Sachar. Wallace Stegner is so commonly referred to as “the dean of Western ...
A. O. Scott’s essay about Wallace Stegner in your June 7 issue reminded me of a day about 45 years ago when I was in Palo Alto, killing time waiting for my friend to return from a meeting.
Edward Albee?” No, I would patiently explain. Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey. It was kind of funny, really. Stegner and Abbey were both so firmly entrenched in the pantheon of writers of the ...
Early every morning, Wallace Stegner made the commute from his kitchen across a deck to his writing studio. Coming through sliding glass doors, he'd light a wood stove, then a cigar. When he ...
For Wallace Stegner's admirers, learning that he once accepted a commission to write a book for an oil company may come as a shock. The involvement with the likes of Texaco, Exxon, Mobil and ...