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• catalog abstract "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, his frontier childhood on the lonely prairie homestead in Saskatchewan, and his teenage years among Salt Lake City's Mormons up through his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic, historian, environmental activist, and teacher. Stegner founded Stanford University's legendary Creative Writing Program, where his students included such budding writers as Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Evan Connell, and Tillie Olsen. But Benson's book is as much a consideration of Stegner's own literary legacy as it is a blow-by-blow retelling of his life. Providing a critical reassessment of the entire body of Stegner's work, Benson argues convincingly for his subject's place in the literary canon - and not merely as a "regional" Western writer, but quite simply as one of the great writers of twentieth-century American letters, whose books can stand comfortably on the shelf beside the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck.".
• catalog contributor b9918624.
• catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "West (U.S.) In literature.".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "But Benson's book is as much a consideration of Stegner's own literary legacy as it is a blow-by-blow retelling of his life. Providing a critical reassessment of the entire body of Stegner's work, Benson argues convincingly for his subject's place in the literary canon - and not merely as a "regional" Western writer, but quite simply as one of the great writers of twentieth-century American letters, whose books can stand comfortably on the shelf beside the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck.".
• catalog description "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, his frontier childhood on the lonely prairie homestead in Saskatchewan, and his teenage years among Salt Lake City's Mormons up through his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic, historian, environmental activist, and teacher. Stegner founded Stanford University's legendary Creative Writing Program, where his students included such budding writers as Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Evan Connell, and Tillie Olsen.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-456) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Against the grain: a heritage of integrity -- The last homestead frontier: a prairie childhood -- From primitive to intellectual: the education of Wallace Stegner -- From student to professor: the further education of Wallace Stegner -- Becoming a novelist: write a novel and win a prize -- Accomplished writer, Harvard teacher, and friend to the famous: what more do you need? -- Hard work at Harvard: climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain -- Looking back at the West from Cambridge -- From the fight against rugged individualism to the fight against prejudice and racism -- Back to fiction, on to Stanford -- Abandoning the novel and embracing the short story -- From short story writer to environmentalist -- To the barricades for the environment -- Travel, travel literature, and the search for narrative voice -- An all-star cast -- The struggle to locate oneself -- Historian and "contemporary" -- Trouble in the sixties -- A new life -- The Pulitzer and beyond -- Back to biography and another prizewinning novel -- The past that comes back to haunt us -- Crossing to safety -- Giving all to time.".
• catalog extent "xx, 472 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Wallace Stegner.".
• catalog identifier "0670862223 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Wallace Stegner.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Viking,".
• catalog relation "Wallace Stegner.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "West (U.S.) In literature.".
• catalog subject "813/.52 B 20".
• catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
• catalog subject "Historians United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "PS3537.T316 Z6 1996".
• catalog subject "Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.".
• catalog subject "Western stories History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Against the grain: a heritage of integrity -- The last homestead frontier: a prairie childhood -- From primitive to intellectual: the education of Wallace Stegner -- From student to professor: the further education of Wallace Stegner -- Becoming a novelist: write a novel and win a prize -- Accomplished writer, Harvard teacher, and friend to the famous: what more do you need? -- Hard work at Harvard: climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain -- Looking back at the West from Cambridge -- From the fight against rugged individualism to the fight against prejudice and racism -- Back to fiction, on to Stanford -- Abandoning the novel and embracing the short story -- From short story writer to environmentalist -- To the barricades for the environment -- Travel, travel literature, and the search for narrative voice -- An all-star cast -- The struggle to locate oneself -- Historian and "contemporary" -- Trouble in the sixties -- A new life -- The Pulitzer and beyond -- Back to biography and another prizewinning novel -- The past that comes back to haunt us -- Crossing to safety -- Giving all to time.".
• catalog title "Wallace Stegner : his life and work / Jackson J. Benson.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".