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Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Illustrations xvii
Introduction: Against the Grain-A Heritage of Integrity 1
1 The Last Homestead Frontier: A Prairie Childhood 16
2 From Primitive to Intellectual: The Education of Wallace Stegner 39
3 From Student to Professor: The Further Education of Wallace Stegner 54
4 Becoming a Novelist: Write a Novel and Win a Prize 68
5 Accomplished Writer, Harvard Teacher, and Friend to the Famous: What More Do You Need? 83
6 Hard Work at Harvard: Climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain 99
7 Looking Back at the West From Cambridge 116
8 From the Fight Against Rugged Individualism to the Fight Against Prejudice and Racism 132
9 Back to Fiction, On to Stanford 151
10 Abandoning the Novel and Embracing the Short Story 171
11 From Short Story Writer to Environmentalist 192
12 To the Barricades for the Environment 211
13 Travel, Travel Literature, and the Search for Narrative Voice 233
14 An All-Star Cast 248
15 The Struggle to Locate Oneself 267
16 Historian and "Contemporary" 290
17 Trouble in the Sixties 311
18 A New Life 333
19 The Pulitzer and Beyond 344
20 Back to Biography and Another Prizewinning Novel 364
21 The Past That Comes Back to Haunt Us 381
22 Crossing to Safety 396
23 Giving all to Time 412
Notes and Documentation 423
Index 457
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David Dilling
reviewed Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work on August 16, 2013
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work
Wallace Stegner was an American author, known for writing about the West. As the title suggests, this book looks at his life, and delves into some criticism of his works, as well.
Generally, I like biographies. For me, I would have liked more "life" and less "works" in this book. I enjoyed the first part of the book, when it focused on his childhood in Southern Saskatchewan (close to where I grew up), and his teenage years in Salt Lake City, and some of his time as a university student. From there, he went on to write, as well as teach at Harvard and Stanford. This is where the book was often "interrupted" with criticism of his various works. Maybe this would have been more interesting for me, if I'd read some of them (I've only read his childhood autobiography, Wolf Willow). Admittedly, a lot of his fiction was based on people in his life, so it did sort of parallel, but there was more criticism than I was interested in and that's where I would often (though not always) lose focus on the book. Overall, I thought it was o.k.
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