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0Biography of Wallace Earle Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993), "The Dean of Western Writers", was an American novelist, historian, essayist, and conservationist. He also created the creative writing program at the Stanford University. He won number of awards in his career including 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose and 1977 National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird. He made his breakthrough with The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) which was somewhat autobiographical novel because of Stegner's homesteader upbringing. Throughout his prolific career, he remained committed to portray of the American West and conservation of the nature.
Quotes by Wallace Earle Stegner
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
It is something-it can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
Wilderness, once we have given it up, is beyond our reconstruction.
Links for Wallace Earle Stegner
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegnerwiki page
- http://wallacestegner.org/Marriot Library operated Wallace Stegner webapge at University of Utah
- http://www.kued.org/productions/wallacestegner/index.phpPBS'S Wallace Stegner Documentary page
- http://www.montana.edu/stegner/Stegner/bib.htmlAnnotated Bibliograpy
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